Infected Pseudoaneurysm of the Superficial Femoral Artery in a Patient with Salmonella enteritidis Bacteremia by MA Hussain, G Roche-Nagle

“…The case of a healthy 52-year-old smoker who presented with pyrexia, rigors, night sweats and severe right leg pain with swelling is presented. …”
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Dual Primary Malignancy: A Rare Organ Combination by Preetam Acharya, Anand Ramakrishna, Tanuj Kanchan, Rahul Magazine

“…A 63-year-old female smoker was evaluated for lump over the right breast, fine needle aspiration cytology of which showed infiltrating ductal carcinoma. …”
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Smoking recurrence: A Survival Analysis by Ana Beatriz Ramos da Silva, Débora de Sousa Cordeiro, Giovana de Souza

“… This study applies Survival Analysis to model the time until smoking relapse, considering social, demographic and clinical variables, such as age group, gender, type of treatment and time as a smoker. Survival curves are estimated using the Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen methods, showing differences between groups. …”
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Using Intravenous Inmunoglobulin in an Atypical Case of Lambert Eaton Síndrome. by Erélido Hernández Valero, Osbert Rodríguez Miranda

“…A 48 year-old hypertensive, smoker patient who started presenting a generalized weakness, pait instability,visual disorders and uncontrolled blood pressure is presented. …”
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An Energy-Heterogeneous Clustering Scheme to Avoid Energy Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks by Gong Bencan, Jiang Tingyao, Xu Shouzhi, Chen Peng

“…However, in uniformly deployed clustering wireless sensor networks, the uneven distribution of communication loads often causes the energy-hole problem, which means that the energy of the nodes in the hole region will be used up sooner than the nodes in other regions. In order to solve the problem, this paper theoretically analyzes the energy consumption of nodes in different network areas, gives the expression of the optimal energy distribution of heterogeneous nodes, and designs an energy-efficient clustering routing protocol. …”
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Tobacco and smoking in Cuba: from the agricultural economy to the health economy by Efraín Sánchez González, Fé Fernández Hernández

“…This phenomenon contradicts the socialist principle of distribution according to work, where non-smokers should not bear the consequences of smoking and smokers themselves should not be induced to persist in smoking. …”
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Thymoma. Case report by Miguel Acebo Rodríguez, Karla Andrea González Mancera, Antonio López Batista

“…Patient information: 55-year-old female patient, with a history of digestive disorders, occasional numbness and weakness in the upper and lower extremities, passive smoker since childhood. She suffered from COVID-19 Delta in 2021, received treatment and has no repercussions. …”
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Epidemiology of Hypertensive State among Chinese Migrants: Effects of Unaffordable Medical Care by Ming Guan

“…There were significant differences of hypertensive states between gender, marital status, regular smoker, and economic unaffordability. Multiple logistic regressions indicated that economic unaffordability had associations with abnormal weight, poor health assessment, and unhealthy hypertensive status. …”
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A RARE PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE HYDATID CYSTON EITHER SIDE OF DIAPHRAGM by Rana Tabassum Ansari et al

“…In the present study, a 65 years old Afghan ex-smoker male diagnosed with tuberculosis was presented with the symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, shortness of breath on exertion and low-grade fever. …”
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Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“… Northern Irish author, Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize (2018) winning novel Milkman presents a narrative textured with multifarious considerations ranging from subjectivity, gender, politics, power, language, and religion to anything a reader may logically connect it with. …”
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Non-diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma. Case Presentation by Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Yasniel Borrego Moreno, Marleny Viera García

“…The case of a 64-year-old patient is presented, with a pathological history of arterial hypertension, ex-smoker, who was admitted because for 3 months she had increased volume of the left lateral region of the neck. …”
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Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“… Northern Irish author, Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize (2018) winning novel Milkman presents a narrative textured with multifarious considerations ranging from subjectivity, gender, politics, power, language, and religion to anything a reader may logically connect it with. …”
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Hubble Bubble Equals Trouble: The Hazards of Water Pipe Smoking by Jacob Urkin, Rivka Ochaion, Aya Peleg

“…The health hazards that the Narghile smoker is exposed to include interference with oxidation, damage to genetic compounds, increased risk of developing malignancies, infectious diseases, damage to the fetus and newborn, and exposure to commonly abused chemicals. …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Peripheral Neuropathy among Type 2 Adult Diabetes Patients Attending Jimma University Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019, an Institutional-Base... by Daba Abdissa, Nigusse Hamba, Kumsa Kene, Deriba Abera Bedane, Guluma Etana, Dassalegn Muleta, Asfaw Gerbi

“…Early detection and appropriate interventions are important among patients with age above 40 years, physically inactive, smokers, and diabetes duration of above 5 years.…”
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Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Unusual Small Bowel Metastasis with Invagination by Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Briggette Fernández González, Mariana Medell Gago

“…It is presented the case of a 55-year-old female smoker with lung tumor and metastases in the lungs, lymph nodes, brain, thyroid and small intestine, which caused a mechanical occlusive acute abdomen due to invagination which accelerated the course and fatal outcome of this disease. …”
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Unexpected Smoking-Linked High MMP-9 in Induced Sputum of Hazardous Dust-Exposed Workers by Yehuda Lerman, Abraham Moscovich, Elizabeth Fireman

“…The proportion of particles with diameters of 0–2 μ in IS samples was significantly higher in nonexposed than exposed workers and in smoker compared to nonsmoker workers. MMP-9 and TIMP-1 levels were similar for both groups. …”
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Perioperative Management of Interscalene Block in Patients with Lung Disease by Eric S. Schwenk, Kishor Gandhi, Eugene R. Viscusi

“…We present a case of an 89-year-old female smoker with prior left lung lower lobectomy and mild to moderate lung disease who presented for right shoulder arthroplasty and insisted on regional anesthesia. …”
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Macrodamage Accumulation Model for a Human Femur by Farah Hamandi, Tarun Goswami

“…We found that the damage accumulates sooner in the multiaxial than in the uniaxial loading condition for the same number of cycles, and the failure starts in the cortical bone. …”
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The need for adequate argumentation for the protection of biotic community by Marcin Klimski

“…It is felt more and more intensely that disadvantageous interference in the natural environment will sooner or later have an impact on the biotic community, including humans themselves. …”
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Unexpected Smoking-Linked High MMP-9 in Induced Sputum of Hazardous Dust-Exposed Workers

“…The proportion of particles with diameters of 0&#8211;2 <mml:math alttext="$mu$"> <mml:mi>&#x03BC;</mml:mi> </mml:math> in IS samples was significantly higher in nonexposed than exposed workers and in smoker compared to nonsmoker workers. MMP-9 and TIMP-1 levels were similar for both groups. …”
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