Lung cancer in women is a 21st century epidemic
...isease. "The majority of lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoke, yet despite all we know about the health hazards of smoking, one in four women continue to smoke," says Dr. Patel. Following the increase in tobacco use in American women over the past century, the death rate from lung cancer increased 600 pe...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...ble than men to the lung cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoking, although this issue remains somewhat controversial. What is not controversial, according to Northwestern University researcher Jyoti D. Patel, M.D., is that lung cancer appears to be a different disease in women. In an article in the Apr...Article examines reasons contributing to epidemic of lung cancer in U.S. women
... advertising, and teenage girls are often drawn to cigarette smoking under a variety of social pressures, and also that "smoking remains the primary cause of lung cancer, and nearly one-quarter of women in the United States continue to smoke. Whether women are more susceptible to the carcinogenic effects of to...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2004 (first issue)
...nchitis. Most such illnesses result from years of cigarette smoking.) Treatment with the inhaled form of corticosteroids is intended to deliver medication directly to the lungs (involved site) and to limit any systemic effects. Patients classified as current users who were exposed to ICS at high daily doses...Smoking linked to accelerated cognitive decline in the elderly
...y." Greater cognitive decline occurred with higher cigarette pack-year exposure, a calculation involving the number of years someone has smoked and the reported average daily number of cigarettes. This was significant mainly for the former smokers and not the current smokers, perhaps due to lower numbers of cu...Novelty-seeking teens may be more easily influenced by tobacco advertisements
...on deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), lifetime cigarette smoking, and age of first cigarette. They found that teens with high degrees of symptoms for ADHD who had smoked cigarettes during their lifetimes also rated highest for novelty-seeking compared with other teens. The researchers say that teens with A...Prevention program curbs drug abuse among middle-school youth
...essons significantly reduced the proportion of new cigarette users by 19 percent and new marijuana users by 24 percent. When compared with the control group, marijuana initiation rates were 38 percent lower for ALERT students who had not tried cigarettes or marijuana at the start of the study, and 26 percent l...HIV-infected have thicker carotid artery wallspredictor of heart attack & stroke
...ry IMT along with age, LDL-cholesterol levels, and cigarette smoking. Duration of protease inhibitor therapy was not associated with thicker carotid IMT. Carotid IMT progression over one year was greater among the 121 HIV patients with follow-up measurements. IMT progression was associated with older age, La...Atherosclerosis more common, progresses quicker in HIV patients
...diac risk factors such as age, cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking and high blood pressure," Hsue said. "There were also indications that HIV infection itself may play a role, since patients with the lowest CD4 immune cell counts (a marker of immunodeficiency) had the thickest carotid IMT." ...Study supports new theory for nicotine's protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders
...l studies have shown that people with a history of cigarette smoking have lower rates of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. However, the explanations for nicotine's neuroprotective effects continue to be debated. Now a team of neuroscientists at the University of South Flori...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2004
...ors found that preterm infants who were exposed to cigarette smoke in the womb showed a significant increase in...died 16 infants who had been exposed prenatally to cigarette smoke, and compared them with 14 control babies who had not been exposed. Maternal smoking was assoc...Folic acid fortification may have lowered stroke deaths
...ed by changes in other major risk factors, such as cigarette smoking, hypertension, diabetes and total serum cholesterol levels, many of which did not improve or worsen during the period studied, Botto said. Co-authors include Quanhe Yang, Ph.D. and Jan M. Friedman....Depression predicts mortality in women with heart disease
...sulin resistance, hypertension, obesity, increased cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse and physical inactivity. Watkins is also currently enrolling patients in a trial that could provide insights into the effects of depression and stress on heart rate variability. Patients whose hearts are unable to appropriately...Policy highlights from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition
... family history and lifestyle factors that include cigarette smoking, diet weight and psychosocial factors such as depression. "The higher a woman's risk, the more aggressive recommendations she and her physician may need to follow," explained Lichtenstein who also holds the Gershoff Chair in Nutrition Science...Activism prompts teen smokers to cut back on cigarettes, Stanford study finds
...o advocacy efforts significantly reduced their own cigarette use compared to teens in traditional drug abuse pr...x months later - a rarity in the efforts to reduce cigarette use among teens. "The real, sustained change we saw is different from most other studies on...Exposure to carcinogens not proportionally decreased by reduction in smoking
...o urine samples 1 week apart before reducing their cigarette consumption by 25% for 2 weeks, 50% for another 2 ...biochemically verify the patients' self reports of cigarette consumption. Patients were offered nicotine replacement therapy to assist their smoking reduction ef...Risk for lowered cognitive performance is greater in people at high risk for stroke
...ge, systolic blood-pressure, presence of diabetes, cigarette smoking, history of cardiovascular disease, treatment for hypertension and atrial fibrillation. After determining the risk of stroke for each individual, the researchers assessed cognitive ability by testing visual-spatial memory, concentration, atte...Low tar cigarettes do not cut lung cancer risk
...he relation between the tar rating of the brand of cigarette smoked in 1982 and death from lung cancer over six years among 364,239 men and 576,535 women aged 30 years or more. Irrespective of the tar level of their current brand, all current smokers had a far greater risk of lung cancer than people who had ne...Promising drug fails to thwart fatal lung disease in large trial
...ng exposure to environmental contaminants, such as cigarette smoke and asbestos, and genetic predisposition. The prevalence of the disease is unknown according the National Institutes of Health, but estimates indicate the numbers are rising with as many as 15,000 new cases of idiopathic PF -- a form of the dis...Active smoking associated with increased risk of breast cancer
... a number of human carcinogens, and metabolites of cigarette smoke have been found in the breast fluid of smokers. However, studies examining the association between tobacco smoke and breast cancer risk have yielded inconsistent results. Many studies have not been able to independently assess the contributions...