Hmong face high rates of some cancers
...However, as younger Hmong become more Westernized, cigarette consumption and lung cancer may increase. In addition, if the Hmong follow the pattern seen in other Asian migrant groups, particularly the Japanese and Chinese, their rates of Western cancers like breast and colon cancer will also start to rise. We ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October 2004 (second issue)
...nchitis, which has usually been caused by years of cigarette smoking.) The researchers studied 47 patients in 4 different groups, with 23 receiving testosterone, either with or without exercise. By raising the testosterone levels of these men to the middle of the normal range for young males, the investigato...Smoking and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
...jor genetic risk factor so far defined for RA, and cigarette smoking. The results, published in the October 200...isk for RA was assessed at 2.8 times. For current cigarette smokers without the SE gene, the risk factor was comparable--2.4 times. These findings affirm the SE...Tar measurements on cigarette packets are misleading
Labelling cigarette packets with tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide mea... are not mimicked by the machine. Secondly, modern cigarette design encourages over-inhalation, which may lead to the smoker taking in much greater amounts of ta...Teenage smoking still 'worryingly high': Girls twice as likely as boys to puff away
...ed (56 per cent) said they had not had a puff of a cigarette in the past three months. But this compared with 75 per cent at age 13-14 who had not smoked during the previous term, and as many as 83 per cent in earlier sessions. Researchers also found that pupils who knew they were having a breath or saliva tes...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...t to continue in their role as the world's leading cigarette salesmen'. The paper's authors studied internal BA...f Formula One to the tobacco industry, and prevent cigarette manufacturers from using the global appeal of the sport to market their brands and spread the tobacc...'Safe' levels of lead, cadmium
... public can be exposed to lead and cadmium through cigarette smoke, in ambient air near industrial and combusti... Guallar to theorize that the cadmium contained in cigarette smoke may damage the lining of blood vessels and be a major factor in smoking-associated PAD. ...Study measures risks of exclusive pipe smoking
... The risks were smaller than those associated with cigarette smoking but similar to those associated with cigar smoking. "All tobacco products cause excessive morbidity and mortality," the authors write. "Comprehensively documenting the deleterious health effects of pipe smoking is important in countering eff...'Reduced exposure' tobacco products lessen carcinogen exposure, but medicinal nicotine better
...gen uptake in 54 users of smokeless tobacco and 51 cigarette smokers who switched to either a "reduced exposure...ups had greater reductions. In addition, among the cigarette smokers, only those who switched to medicinal nicotine experienced a reduction in levels of the biom...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...e risk of getting lung cancer is greater in female cigarette smokers than in male cigarette smokers. However, given equal smoking rates, men and women have a similar susceptibility to lung can...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...t 18 years old and had to have smoked at least one cigarette in the past 14 days. They were: 82 percent white, 11 percent African American, 1 percent American Indian and 2 percent Asian/Pacific Islander. Three percent were Hispanic. Participants completed a longer form of the WISDM-68, two other dependence que...UCI Tobacco research center reports why teens are most vulnerable to smoking addiction
... rewarding effects of nicotine than adults, making cigarette addiction more likely to occur during adolescence...ects of nicotine as strongly. Another chemical in cigarette smoke works with nicotine to produce more rewarding effects in young people than nicotine alone can ...GI health affected by consumption of coffee and carbonated drinks
...nadjusted and adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity and cigarette smoking, the prevalence of liver injury declined with increasing coffee drinking and caffeine consumption, though the protective effect was greater for caffeine intake. The correlation was consistent across subgroups when defined by individual risk ...ESC highlights need for screening and global risk management as statins move over the counter in UK
... with one or more risk factors including: obesity, cigarette smoking, insufficient physical exercise, unhealthy diet, hypertension, diabetes or family history of heart disease. An on-the-spot blood test is envisaged to assess if an individual requesting simvastatin is eligible and if the results are positive ...Parents' heart attack or stroke raises risk in their middle-aged children
..., such as high cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, cigarette smoking and diabetes. When both parents had early-onset cardiovascular disease, children were at even greater risk for a heart attack or stroke. Our results shed important light on the true magnitude of the association between offspring and parental...Women and heart disease: The role of diabetes and hyperglycemia
... (an imbalanced lipid and cholesterol profile) and cigarette smoking. "With the diagnosis of diabetes, the relative risk of CVD increases more in women than in men," write the authors. "For instance, the risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack) is 150 percent greater in diabetic than in nondi...Bupropion, counseling may help youth with ADHD stop smoking
....2 ppm by the end of the study. CO, a component of cigarette smoke, reduces the capacity of blood to carry oxygen, forcing the heart to work harder to supply the body with the oxygen it needs. Decreased levels of CO may signify the efficacy of a smoking cessation program. There was no change in ADHD symptom sc...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for May 2004 (first issue)
...bronchitis. Both illnesses are caused by years of cigarette smoking. In the U.S., the disease is the fourth leading cause of death.) In addition to the demonstrated improvement in the sensation of breathlessness during exercise training, the investigators also found a small but statistically significant imp...Untreated postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
...ily history of fracture, low bone mineral density, cigarette use, and race. Studies show that among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who experience a spinal fracture, one out of five will suffer their next spinal fracture within just one year, potentially leading to a fracture cascade. Fractures can pro...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
... the low black male cancer burdens seen before the cigarette epidemic appears possible. Indeed, New York and, less so, California appear to be well on their way there." Leistikow used lung cancer death rates as a measure of smoke exposure. He then analyzed the correlation between annual smoke exposure and non...