Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
... unless they taketheir medication, eat right, stop smoking and exercise, they may wind up back onthe operating table to have more clogged arteries reopened or bypassed. "Bypass treats the results of coronary artery disease, not the cause," Eaglesays. "It's still discouraging that half the transplanted veins...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
...ars. Researchers previouslyexamined the impact of smoking on Medicaid costs as well as total health carecost...keley researchers estimated 1993 nationaland state smoking costs to the Medicare program. The 1993 cost estimates wereupdated to1997 based on the increase in ...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...ts. Demographicinformation was obtained, including smoking history. The data analysis is notyet complete, but very preliminary results indicate that significant abnormalcolposcopy results do correlate with telomerase activity," Boggess says. "The finding that telomerase can be detected in a Pap smear...It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
...tes was associated with an earlier age of onset of smoking and theseyouth also smoked more." Accordi...come addicted asadolescents. Very few adults start smoking as adults." In North Carolina's middle schools, 25.3 percent of males and 20.7percent of fem...Traditional values may curtail smoking among southern black women
...raditional values among Black women thatdiscourage smoking may be the reason for noticeably lower smoking rates amongAfrican-Americans in the West and Deep South compared to Blacks in other regionsof the co......ho were similar with regard to age, sex,weight and smoking habits. The link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular mortality was also shown in aSwedish study presented on Tuesday morning. As they explained during their oralcommunication, Dr Yksel Peker and his colleagues at Sahlgrenska UniversityHospital of ...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
...ngblacks and among whites can be explained through smoking prevalence, how thebody metabolizes and excretes carcinogenic and mutagenic agents in tobaccosmoke, socioeconomic status, and access to health care. But these factorsaccount for only some of the inequities in morbidity and mortality in the twopopula......l examine why some smokersare resistant to current smoking cessation treatments with a $10 million grantfrom ...l. "It iscritically important that more effective smoking cessation treatments bedeveloped, because most smokers try to quit only once every three to fouryear...USC receives $12.8 million to study teen smoking
...ion and adaptation to theAmerican lifestyle affect smoking among Asian, Pacific Islander and Latinoyouth. Res... will design and test effective ways to discourage smoking andexamine the effects of environmental tobacco smoke. It is one of only six such federally funded c...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...ood and lifetime psychiatric factors thatdetermine smoking initiation, dependence, use patterns, cessation, a... Theme: identifying the bio-behavioral basis of smoking initiation,smoking treatment, and harm from tobacco exposure; University of Minnesot...Smokers have lower success rates with periodontal treatment
...the current issue of the Journal ofPeriodontology, smoking impairs healing after non-surgical periodontaltrea...tment of smokers should include seriousattempts at smoking cessation." "The good news is your oral health will begin to improve once you quit smoking,"said Ja...Greater awareness of carbon monoxide poisoning needed among patients and doctors
...and Hay and breath meters (originally developed as smoking cessation aids) are now available- but "most of the time, no one thinks to do the test." The authors conclude that "with a simple, non-invasive testing device the chances of such tragedies could be dramatically lessened. But to achieve this we must ...Over 400 heart attacks every year in young women smokers could be prevented
...ear could beprevented and about 112 lives saved if smoking ceased." Heart (formerly the British Heart Journal) is a leading international clinicaljournal that keeps cardiologists and others in touch with advances that have themost impact on the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Forfurther ...Few physicians counsel adolescents about smoking
...ients were smokers, physicians reported discussing smoking at office visits less than 20 percent of the time....ed asking young patients ages 11 to 21 about their smoking habits at 71 percent of office visits. But they provided counseling and advice about smoking at les...Where you live may help predict risk of early death from heart disease
...nd that states with the highest rates of cigarette smoking -- Kentucky and Tennessee -- also had the highest ...ase deaths. The researchers say that if cigarette smoking declined in those states the number of early deaths from heart disease would also decline. The r...ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Differences in smoking patterns and education levels among men in various...rtment of epidemiology, pointed to variations in smoking and education levels, as indicated by records of deaths from cancers of the lung and bronchus and ...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
... There were also similarities in current and past smoking histories and exercise levels, indicating other wa... them change high risk lifestyle behaviors such as smoking and lack of exercise, we tend to assume that the patient is sharing that information with his or her...Impotence may be early warning of heart disease
...en's erectile dysfunction went away when they quit smoking or got their cholesterol levels under control," he says. None of the patients in Pritzker's study had symptoms of heart disease, but 40 out of 50 had at least one risk factor for heart disease including cigarette smoking, elevated total cholesterol...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...tion stage,when they do something concrete to quit smoking such as buy a nicotine patch. Hall is recruiting ..." she said. "What we want to see is a decrease in smoking rates." Another area of study will look at the effectiveness of linking heroin addicts who come int...... the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Cigarette smoking peaked in 1996 among eighth- and 10th-graders nati...se peak years, there has been a gradual decline in smoking rates, which continued in 1999. Among eighth-graders, most of whom are 13 or 14 years old, 17.5 pe...