The Road to Vaping: E-cigarette-Only Susceptibility & Curiosity Among Adolescents
Despite the substantial progress that has been made in reducing conventional cigarette smoking...
Smoking & Tobacco
The antioxidant response in Barrett’s tumorigenesis: A double-edged sword.
Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is the dominant form of esophageal malignancies in the United States and other industrialized countries. The incidence of EAC has been rising rapidly during the past four decades. Barrett’s...
Subgroup analysis of the relationship between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and rheumatoid arthritis: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003-2014.
The present study examined potential effect modifiers between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and elucidated the relationship between PAHs and RA in subgroups using...
Absolute risk assessment for guiding cardiovascular risk management in a chest pain clinic.
To assess the efficacy of a pro-active, absolute cardiovascular risk-guided approach to opportunistically modifying cardiovascular risk factors in patients without coronary ischaemia attending a chest pain clinic.Prospective,...
Comparison of the level of allostatic load between patients with major depression and the general population.
We compared the level of allostatic load (AL) between patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and non-depressed controls using two definitions of AL: continuous AL scores (AL index) and clinically significant high AL (≥4)....
The effects of household solid fuel use on self-reported and performance-based physical functioning in middle-aged and older Chinese populations: A cross-sectional study.
Physical limitation, which has been linked to outdoor air pollution exposure in previous studies, is a risk factor for disability and even for premature death. Although people often spend more time indoors, the relationship...
The effect of parental smoking on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills.
Economic research emphasises the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children for long-term labour market, health and social outcomes. In contrast to previous studies that focus on the effects of maternal smoking...
Prenatal exposure to mixtures of persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals and early menarche in a population-based cohort of British girls.
Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is ubiquitous. EDC exposure, especially during critical periods of development like the prenatal window, may interfere with the body’s endocrine system, which can affect...
[Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infections in family physicians: A case-control study].
To identify the sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics associated with the presence of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in family physicians who carry out their work in Primary Care (PC) or in Hospital...
Cessation classification likelihood increases with higher expired-air carbon monoxide cutoffs: a meta-analysis.
Expired-air carbon monoxide (CO) is commonly used to biochemically verify smoking status. The CO cutoff and CO monitor brand may affect the probability of classifying smokers as abstinent, thus influencing conclusions about the...
Shared breastfeeding & other early multiple sclerosis risk factors: A case-control study.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease. Etiology is thought to be multifactorial with genetic and environmental factors interplay. Our objective in this study is to evaluate culture specific and...
Serum concentrations of neonicotinoids, and their associations with lipid molecules of the general residents in Wuxi City, Eastern China.
Exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides (NNIs) was proven to be harmful to organisms, however, there is a dearth of information regarding their occurrence and adverse effects on the general residents. Here, n = 120 human serum...
