Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Bladder with Adenocarcinomatous Component by Rami Halabi, Maher Abdessater, Johnny Boustany, Anthony Kanbar, Halim Akl, Joey El Khoury, Charbel El Hachem, Raghid El Khoury

“…The patient was a 64-year-old smoker male, who presented for the first time with dysuria and hematuria. …”
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The Burden of Smoking in the Health-Disease Process in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS by Yoenny Peña García, Luis Carlos Andraín Silva, Idalmis Sartorio Zayas, Dolys Suárez Padilla, Ana Julia Lozada Pérez

“…It was analyzed as a dependent variable for smoking in people living with the human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS, and as independent variables: age, years of exposure (as a smoker), diseases that have suffered in the last 5 years, immunological condition, and response to antiretroviral therapy. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccination-Related Concerns Amongst Healthcare Workers by Ammarah Saeed, Bushra Rabbani, Naseem Amin Dhedhi, Faisal Ahmed, Mehrunnisa Umar, Jameel Ahmed

“…Results: The mean age of the study participants was 38.28±11.73 years, the majority were females (n=110, 55.8%), married (n=132, 67.0%), doctors by profession (n=129, 65.5%), non-smoker (n=169, 85.8%) and had no comorbidity (n=155, 78.7%). …”
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Association Between Sociodemographic Variables, Healthy Habits, and Stress with Risk Scales for Liver Disease Associated with Metabolic Dysfunction by Ángel Arturo López-González, Emilio Martínez-Almoyna Rifá, Hernán Paublini Oliveira, Cristina Martorell Sánchez, Pedro Juan Tárraga López, José Ignacio Ramírez-Manent

“…Conclusions: The profile of an individual at higher risk of elevated MAFLD risk scale values is a male, aged 50 or older, belonging to lower socioeconomic levels (manual laborers), a smoker, sedentary, with low adherence to the Mediterranean diet, and with high stress scale scores.…”
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Ischemic Gangrene of the Glans following Penile Prosthesis Implantation by Borja García Gómez, Javier Romero Otero, Laura Díez Sicilia, Estibaliz Jiménez Alcaide, Eduardo García-Cruz, Alfredo Rodríguez Antolín

“…We present a 53-year-old male, smoker with diabetes and hypercholesterolemia, who underwent surgery for the insertion of a penile prosthesis with 3 components to correct his erectile dysfunction and severe Peyronie's disease. …”
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Nasal Sinus Tract of Odontogenic Origin: Report of a Case by Sagar Sareen, Anjani Kumar Pathak, Parth Purwar, Jaya Dixit, Divya Singhal, Isha Sajjanhar, Kopal Goel, Vaibhav Sheel Gupta

“…The present case report encompasses the management of an extraoral discharging sinus tract at the base of the right nostril in a chronic smoker. The lesion which was earlier diagnosed to be of nonodontogenic origin persisted even after erratic treatment modalities. …”
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Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Urinary Tract Successfully Managed with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Mustapha Ahsaini, Omar Riyach, Mohammed Fadl Tazi, Mohammed Jamal El Fassi, My Hassan Farih, Hind Elfatmi, Afaf Amarti

“…We report a rare case of a 54-year-old Arab male native of moroccan; he is a smoker and was referred to our institution for intermittent hematuria. …”
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Design of an alumina forming coating for Nb-base refractory alloys by Collin S. Holgate, Carolina Frey, Melina A. Endsley, Akane Suzuki, Carlos G. Levi, Tresa M. Pollock

“…The methodology will be useful for the design of coatings for RMPEAs, enabling their implementation and significant efficiency benefits sooner.…”
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Impact of alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on the drug-resistance of newly diagnosed tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in Shandong, China, during 2004–2020 by Yi-Fan Li, Yao Liu, Qi Fu, Wan-mei Song, Jin-yue Liu, Qian-yun Zhang, Ting-ting Xu, Shi-jin Li, Qi-qi An, Si-qi Liu, Huai-chen Li, Ning Ning Tao, Xue-han Zhu, Chun-bao Yu, Jihua Dong

“…Exclusive criteria: retreated cases; extrapulmonary tuberculosis; without information on drug susceptibility testing results, smoking or drinking habits; bacteriological identification as non-tuberculous mycobacteria.Primary and secondary outcome measures Patients were classified into four groups including smokers only (G1), drinker only (G2), smoker +drinker (G3), non-smoker +non-drinker group (G0). …”
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The Impact of Surgical Trauma, BMI and Analgesics Intake on Postoperative Pain after Periapical Surgery in the Anterior Maxillary Region by Jure Martinić, Lidija Gavić, Antonija Tadin, Ante Mihovilović, Petra Stazić, Daniel Jerković

“…Study design: The study included 30 healthy, non-smoker adults of both genders, with an indication for periapical surgery on a single tooth in the upper anterior region, no history of prior surgery, no allergies to lidocaine with adrenaline or ibuprofen, no acute inflammation or pain, and a PAI of 3, 4, or 5. …”
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Falling sex ratios and emerging evidence of sex-selective abortion in Nepal: evidence from nationally representative survey data by Mahesh Puri, Melanie Dawn Frost, Peter Richard Andrew Hinde

“…Falling fertility has intensified the need to bear a son sooner, while legal abortion services have reduced the costs and risks associated with obtaining an abortion.…”
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An Alternative Model of Care for the Treatment of Adolescent Athletes with Extension-Based Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study. by Mitchell Selhorst, Richard Rodenberg, Nick Padgett, Anastasia Fischer, Reno Ravindran, James MacDonald

“…Patients in the biomedical model who did not sustain a vertebral injury returned to sport sooner than the physical therapy first model (3.4 days versus 51 days), while those with a vertebral injury took longer in the current model (131 days versus 71 days). …”
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Clinical, immune and genetic risk factors of malaria-associated acute kidney injury in Zambian children: A study protocol. by Chisambo Mwaba, Sody Munsaka, David Mwakazanga, David Rutagwerae, Owen Ngalamika, Suzanna Mwanza, Mignon McCulloch, Evans Mpabalwani

“…Serum creatinine is collected on Day 1 within 24 hours of admission, on Day 3 and then again on discharge or day 7, whichever comes sooner. Baseline biomarker concentrations will be determined using the Luminex multiplex Elisa system or high-sensitivity ELISA. …”
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Factors Associated with Long-Term Control of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Mohammed Badedi, Yahiya Solan, Hussain Darraj, Abdullah Sabai, Mohamed Mahfouz, Saleh Alamodi, Abdullah Alsabaani

“…Moreover, patients who were smoker or divorced were significantly more likely to have higher HbA1c. …”
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Impact of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Implantation of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump on the Outcome of an Acute Total Obstruction of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Hamza Hamayel, Yahya Ismail, Sajed Majadla, Yousef Hamshari, Yunis Daralammouri

“…A 56-year-old male patient who is a smoker presented with typical chest pain worsened 2 hours prior to admission. …”
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Solitary metastasis in the internal auditory canal from non-small cell lung carcinoma: A case report by Julie De Boos, Marie Bruyneel, Ionela Bold

“…Case presentation: A 59-year-old active smoker was initially diagnosed with a locally advanced, unresectable stage IIIA Pancoast tumor (NSCLC, cT4N1M0) and treated with concurrent chemoradiation (cisplatin-pemetrexed) followed by immunotherapy (durvalumab). …”
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Spatially-implicit modelling of disease-behaviour interactions in the context of non-pharmaceutical interventions by Notice Ringa, Chris T. Bauch

“…Also, if initial source infections are surrounded by protective individuals, there are parameter regimes where increasing the initial number of source infections actually decreases the infection peak (instead of increasing it) and makes it occur sooner. The peak prevalence increases with the rate at which individuals drop the habit of using NPIs, but the response of peak prevalence to changes in the forgetting rate are qualitatively different for the two forms of learning. …”
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Diurnal and daily fluctuations in levels of the urinary oxidative stress marker 8-hydroxyguanosine in spot urine samples by Yun-Shan Li, Koichi Fujisawa, Kazuaki Kawai

“…Results No significant variations were observed in the diurnal levels of urinary 8-OHGuo among non-smokers. Conversely, the daily variation of 8-OHGuo in the urine of the smoker was significant, with a coefficient of variation of 18.71%. …”
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Changing patterns in cataract surgery indications, outcomes, and costs, 2012–2023: a retrospective study at Aravind Eye Hospitals, IndiaResearch in context by Sachin Gupta, Ravindran D. Ravilla, Haripriya Aravind, Shivkumar Chandrashekharan, Thulasiraj D. Ravilla

“…Interpretation: Over this period, patients sought cataract surgery sooner, received better surgical outcomes, and were willing to pay more for the improvements. …”
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Decline of adolescent smoking in Ireland 1995–2015: trend analysis and associated factors by Shasha Li, Sheila Keogan, Luke Clancy, Keishia Taylor

“…Dependent variable is whether a respondent is a smoker in last 30 days. Independent variables include gender, survey years, perceived ease of access to cigarettes, perceived risk of smoking, perceived relative wealth, parental monitoring, maternal relationship, family structure, truancy and peer smoking.Results Smoking prevalence has dropped from 41% in 1995 to 13% in 2015. …”
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