studies have demonstrated that zinc plays an important role in development of cardiovascular diseases in western populations. but there is little data for other racial groups. this study was aimed to investigate the association between serum zinc and coronary artery disease (cad) in iranian subjects.this study was conducted on 81 subjects,which referred to heshmat hospital of guilan province , ...

smoking has become more prevalent in turkey than it has in those of western countries during the past decade. this study was conducted to make parameter estimations on gender related smoking habits with the minimum of variance. of the ninety-two researches related to smoking habits conducted from 1981 to 2003 in turkey, 60 were deemed appropriate for the application of meta analysis and meta re...

The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between occupational exposures and the development of lung cancer among the patients attending Bhaktapur Cancer Care Center, Bhaktapur, Nepal. The study subjects consisted of 85 cases of lung cancer and a reference group of 40 cases of colon cancer. Demographic data and information about work history was obtained by a structured inter...

INTRODUCTION Tobacco smoking is an important cause of premature death and morbidity in Denmark. It is therefore important to monitor tobacco consumption. In this paper, tobacco consumption in Denmark is illustrated by two methods: sale of tobacco products and smoking habit surveys. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on sale of tobacco products in Denmark were available for the 1920-2010-period. Nation...

The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more common among student who were married hailed from rural areas and the intensity of smoking increa...

In a case-control study 82 patients with Crohn's disease and matched controls drawn from general practice lists were questioned about their smoking habits. Patients with Crohn's disease were significantly more likely to be smokers than the controls, and the association was stronger for smoking habit before the onset of the disease than for current smoking habit, the relative risks for smokers c...

In a previous paper we have given an account of the incidence of the opium smoking habit in India. We carried out a general survey of the occurrence of this habit in different provinces and by extensive work in the field collected statistics with regard to the approximate number of addicts in each province. In this paper we propose to deal with the preparations used for smoking, the methods of ...

BACKGROUND To study the various forms of tobacco usage and its associated oral mucosal lesions among the patients attending Vishnu Dental College Bhimavaram. MATERIAL AND METHODS An observational cross-sectional study was conducted in a total of 450 patients who were divided into three groups based upon type of tobacco use, as Group-1 Reverse smoking, Group-2 Conventional smoking, Group-3 Smo...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyse the possible associations between smoking habit and some clinico-biological parameters of breast infi ltrating ductal carcinomas (IDCs). Material and Methods: The study group included included 291 females with IDC who had undergone no prior treatment. Out of them, 48 were current smoking, 11 quit smoking and 232 never smoking. All were studied ...