Tobacco Use Disorder - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 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...

[Smoking and nicotine dependence]

25 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of smoking is decreasing. At the same time, studies suggest that the relative proportion of nicotine dependent smokers is increasing. This may leave us with a smaller, but more problematic group of smokers. Few studies ... Read more...

Dopaminergic activity in depressed smokers: a positron emission tomography study.

30 Jul 2009 Tobacco dependence is highly prevalent in depressed patients. We assessed changes in [(11)C]-raclopride binding potential (BP) using positron emission tomography (PET) before and after the oral administration of d-amphetamine in healthy controls and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Tobacco Use Disorder - Complications'

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
• Nondaily and social smoking: an increasingly prevalent pattern. 24 Oct 2009
• [Smoking and nicotine dependence] 25 Aug 2009
• Dopaminergic activity in depressed smokers: a positron emission tomography study. 30 Jul 2009
• Substance use, trait measures, and subjective response to nicotine in never-smokers stratified on parental smoking history and sex. 22 Jul 2009
• Results of the application of the American Diabetes Association guidelines regarding tobacco dependency in subjects with diabetes mellitus. 16 Jun 2009
• [Rheumatology 2009] 8 Jun 2009
• Association of major depression with subtypes of nicotine dependence found among adult daily smokers: a latent class analysis. 5 Jun 2009
• Smoking cessation pharmacotherapy. 31 May 2009
• MRSI and DTI: a multimodal approach for improved detection of white matter abnormalities in alcohol and nicotine dependence. 30 May 2009
• Methadone-nicotine interactions in methadone maintenance treatment patients. 30 May 2009
• Review: the need for smoking cessation among HIV-positive smokers. 30 May 2009
• Use of snus and risk for cardiovascular disease: results from the Swedish Twin Registry. 30 May 2009
• A randomized, controlled trial of bupropion sustained-release for preventing tobacco relapse in recovering alcoholics. 27 May 2009
• Antidepressant treatment and smoking cessation in bipolar disorder. 25 May 2009
• Longitudinal patterns of binge drinking among first year college students with a history of tobacco use. 4 May 2009
• New tobacco trends: waterpipe (hookah) smoking and implications for healthcare providers. 29 Apr 2009
• Treatments for nicotine addiction should be a top priority. 22 Apr 2009
• Safety and effectiveness of varenicline in a veteran population with a high prevalence of mental illness. 19 Apr 2009
• A typology of cannabis-related problems among individuals with repeated illegal drug use in the first three decades of life: Evidence for heterogeneity and different treatment needs. 9 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Tobacco Use Disorder'

Definition: Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included.

Descriptor UI: D014029

Alternative terms: Tobacco Use Disorder; Disorder, Tobacco Use; Tobacco Use Disorders; Tobacco-Use Disorder; Disorder, Tobacco-Use; Nicotine Use Disorder; Disorder, Nicotine Use; Nicotine Use Disorders; Use Disorder, Nicotine; Tobacco Dependence; Dependence, Tobacco; Tobacco Dependences; Nicotine Dependence; Dependence, Nicotine;

Related Mesh Headings: Smoking Cessation;

Allowable Qualifiers: nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality;

Tree Number: C21.739.912; F03.900.912;

History Note: 81

Technical Notes: includes cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco & snuff; a psychiatric diag: do not confuse with SMOKING /adv eff; note X ref NICOTINE DEPENDENCE: do not coord with NICOTINE unless nicotine is substantially discussed as a chemical