Smoking - Ethnology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: We assessed the prevalence of substance use among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery in northwest Iran. We evaluated the postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality of patients with substance ... Read more...

Patterns of cigarette smoking initiation in two culturally distinct American Indian tribes.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To better understand patterns of initiation among American Indians we examined age-related patterns of smoking initiation during adolescence and young adulthood in 2 American Indian tribes. METHODS: We used log-rank comparison and a Cox ... Read more...

Prediction of birth weight by cotinine levels during pregnancy in a population of black smokers.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to investigate the association between maternal salivary cotinine levels (SCLs) and pregnancy outcomes among black smokers. METHODS: In a randomized, controlled trial conducted in 2001-2004 in Washington, DC, 714 women (126 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Smoking - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• The poppies of Afghanistan. 30 Oct 2009
• Patterns of cigarette smoking initiation in two culturally distinct American Indian tribes. 30 Oct 2009
• Prediction of birth weight by cotinine levels during pregnancy in a population of black smokers. 26 Sep 2009
• Ethnic-specific risks for atherosclerotic calcification of the thoracic and abdominal aorta (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). 13 Sep 2009
• Should the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee extend the range of free nicotine replacement therapies available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? 5 Sep 2009
• Self-reported diabetes in Hispanic subgroup, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white populations: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2005. 30 Aug 2009
• Maternal mental health and childhood asthma among Puerto Rican youth: the role of prenatal smoking. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of self-report on smoking among university students in Korea. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of smoking assessed biochemically in an urban public hospital: a rationale for routine cotinine screening. 25 Aug 2009
• Promoting smoking cessation in Bangladeshi and Pakistani male adults: design of a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of trained community smoking cessation workers. 12 Aug 2009
• Smoke-free policies among Asian-American women: comparisons by education status. 30 Jul 2009
• Trends in smoking among African-Americans: a description of Nashville's REACH 2010 initiative. 30 Jul 2009
• The health of Arab-Americans living in the United States: a systematic review of the literature. 28 Jul 2009
• International Spanish/English Internet smoking cessation trial yields 20% abstinence rates at 1 year. 27 Jul 2009
• Regret and rationalization among smokers in Thailand and Malaysia: findings from the International Tobacco Control Southeast Asia Survey. 29 Jun 2009
• A prospective study of cigarette smoking initiation during college: Chinese and Korean American students. 29 Jun 2009
• Narghile smoking and its adverse health consequences: a literature review. 11 Jun 2009
• Mediated, moderated and direct effects of country of residence, age, and gender on the cognitive and social determinants of adolescent smoking in Spain and the UK: a cross-sectional study. 2 Jun 2009
• Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the Middle East: a systematic review. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Smoking'

Definition: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco.

Descriptor UI: D012907

Alternative terms: Smoking; Tobacco Smoking; Cigarette Smoking; Smoking, Cigarette; Smoking, Tobacco;

Related Mesh Headings: Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Tobacco Use Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.466.753;

Technical Notes: almost exclusively tobacco smoking: not for smoking marijuana ( = MARIJUANA SMOKING); smokers' patches, smokers' tongue = LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; cancer caused by smoking = organ/neopl term with /etiol (not /chem ind) + SMOKING /adv eff (not TOBACCO USE DISORDER); passive smoking = TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; SMOKING CESSATION is also available