Esophageal adenocarcinoma: risk factors and modern screening strategy by I. V. Mayev, D. N. Andreyev, Yu. A. Kucheryavy, M. P. Scheglanova

“…Only GERD patients develop EAC, with the highest risk in males, Caucasians, smokers, overweight patients and those with uncontrolled symptoms. …”
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PPARγ Ligands Regulate Noncontractile and Contractile Functions of Airway Smooth Muscle: Implications for Asthma Therapy by Chantal Donovan, Xiahui Tan, Jane Elizabeth Bourke

“…Of particular interest, a small clinical trial has shown that oral RGZ treatment improves lung function in smokers with asthma, a group that is generally unresponsive to conventional steroid treatment. …”
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Associated Factors to Human Papilloma Virus. A study performed in Health Area V, in Cienfuegos, Cuba. by Miryam González González del Pino, Mayrim Hernández González, Adys Castro Barberena

“…The starting age to have sexual intercourse is from 15 to 19 years old. 75 % of the patients are smokers. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> results coincide with the medical literature reviewed regarding risk factors and its important relationship with NIC and so the cervicouterine cancer genesis. …”
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Prevalence of 10-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases and Associated Risks in Canadian Adults: The Contribution of Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment Introduction by Solmaz Setayeshgar, Susan J. Whiting, Hassanali Vatanparast

“…The CVD risk increased by increase in age, decrease in education, and decrease in physical activity and in smokers. Canadians with medium risk of CVD consumed significantly less fruit and vegetable juice compared to Canadians with low risk. …”
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Formation, Repair, and Genotoxic Properties of Bulky DNA Adducts Formed from Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines by Lisa A. Peterson

“…Both compounds are carcinogenic in laboratory animals, generating tumors at sites comparable to those observed in smokers. These Group 1 human carcinogens are metabolized to reactive intermediates that alkylate DNA. …”
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Pharmacotherapy of Peptic Ulcer Disease by F Molina, MM Vohra, CN Williams

“…The healing rare increases with time for active medication and placebo, and is lower among smokers than nonsmokers for all drugs but misoprostol. …”
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Development and User Evaluation of a Food-recognition app (FoodRec): Experimental Data and Qualitative Analysis by Sebastiano Battiato, Pasquale Caponnetto, Roberto Leotta, Giovanni Marotta, Alessandro Midolo, Alessandro Ortis, Riccardo Polosa

“… # Methods participants used the FoodRec App for two consecutive weeks for usability and suitability assessment. Tests included 149 smokers involved in a smoke quitting process, aged between 19 and 80. …”
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Gene Mutation and Its Association with Clinicopathological Features in Young Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Wencui Kong, Zongyang Yu, Wenwu Wang, Jingrong Yang, Jingfang Wang, Zhongquan Zhao

“…EGFR mutation was constantly found in adenocarcinoma and male gender, and ever smokers (100%, P<0.05). Furthermore, ALK fusions were found in 7 patients (31.8%), which include EML-4-ALK fusions; there was a trend that ALK fusions were associated with adenocarcinoma and female gender. …”
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Patterns of orthopaedic injury among hospitalised personal mobility device users and bicycle riders: a comparative study by Don Thong Siang Koh, Yew Lok Woo, Ting Hway Wong, Mann Hong Tan

“…Introduction: Personal mobility devices (PMDs), such as electronic scooters or motorised bicycles, are efficient modes of transportation. …”
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Strategic spatial planning in the implementation of mobility hubs by Kristina Trygg, Ida Grundel

“…The use of mobility hubs as a planning tool is a relatively new way of designing and combining different transportation modes, focusing on sharing options, e.g., bikes, e-scooters, car-sharing, etc., as well as public transport to reduce car dependency in cities (Czarnetzki &amp; Slek, 2022; Rongen et al., 2022). …”
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Association between HMGB1 and COPD: A Systematic Review by Sebastiano Gangemi, Marco Casciaro, Giovanni Trapani, Sebastiano Quartuccio, Michele Navarra, Giovanni Pioggia, Egidio Imbalzano

“…In almost all the studies, it emerged that HMGB1 levels are augmented in smokers and in patients affected by COPD. It emerged that cigarette smoking, the most well-known causative factor of COPD, induces neutrophils death and necrosis. …”
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Maternal Characteristics of Women Exposed to Hypnotic Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonist during Pregnancy by Bjarke Askaa, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Henrik Enghusen Poulsen, Jon Traerup Andersen

“…Compared to unexposed women, exposed women were characterized by being older, with higher BMI, in their third or fourth parity, of lower income and education level, more frequently smokers, and more likely to be comedicated with antipsychotic, anxiolytic, or antidepressant drugs (P<0.0001). …”
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Urinary Bladder Cancer in Egypt: Are There Gender Differences in Its Histopathological Presentation? by Fiorina Kyritsi, Christopher A. Loffredo, Yun-Ling Zheng, George Philips, Sania Amr

“…Compared to females, male cases were significantly older at time of diagnosis and smokers. In Egypt, regardless of the type of bladder cancer (SCC or UC), male more than female cases had evidence of SH infection, but not other histopathologic differences, in bladder tissue specimens.…”
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Gambaran Tingkat Kepatuhan Pengobatan Pasien TB Paru by Endang Martini, Rika Sarfika, Siti Yuliharni

“…More than half of the respondents (63.3%) were smokers, with a smoking history of ≥10 years. The level of medication adherence among pulmonary TB patients remains low. …”
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Determination of Nicotine in Tobacco by Chemometric Optimization and Cation-Selective Exhaustive Injection in Combination with Sweeping-Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography by Yi-Hui Lin, Chia-Hsien Feng, Shih-Wei Wang, Po-Yun Ko, Ming-Hsun Lee, Yen-Ling Chen

“…To reduce the harm of tobacco products for smokers, a law was introduced that requires tobacco product containers to be marked with the amount of nicotine as well as tar. …”
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Impact of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco on Salivary Flow Rate, pH Levels and Salivary Electrolytes by Syeda Sadia Hassan, Syed Hussain Askary, Syed Mohammad Ahmed Bukhari, Amir Akbar Shaikh, Syed Akbar Abbas Zaidi, Abubakar Abdullah, Hassan Shahid

“…Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted at community health centers, dental clinics, and public spaces in Hyderabad from January 2024 to July 2024. A total of 150 smokers and smokeless tobacco users who were >18 years old were recruited via convenience sampling technique. …”
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II by Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Morejón Giraldoni, Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito, Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez, Dania Peraza Alejo, Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García

“…<strong><br />Results</strong>: 33.7% of interviewed persons were smokers, slightly lower than the first measurement, obesity BMI&gt; = 30 kg/m2 was 18.8%, almost 8% higher than the baseline survey, the arterial hypertension to 35.5% and diabetes mellitus to 6.8%, both well above the measurement of 2001-2002. …”
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Real Life Cancer Comorbidity in Greek Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Followed Up at a Single Diabetes Center: An Unappreciated New Diabetes Complication by Anastasia Thanopoulou, Demetrios Pectasides

“…Patients with cancer were older and more frequently smokers. Prostate cancer was the most frequent (24.0%) type. …”
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Evaluating physician concordance in interpretation of tracheobronchomalacia diagnosis and phenotyping using dynamic expiratory chest computed tomography by G. A. Cortes-Puentes, M. Matatko, B. J. Bartholmai, E. S. Edell, K. G. Lim

“…TBM was more prevalent in males, older individuals, and smokers. Agreement among specialists was substantial for TBM diagnosis (Fleiss’s Kappa = 0.61, p < 0.001) but moderate for phenotype classification (Fleiss’s Kappa = 0.52, p < 0.001). …”
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Smoke-free hospitality environments and cognitive health: A population-based study in the United States by Lucie Kalousová

“…The effect is statistically significant and larger for women, a 0.29 [CI −0.50 to −0.01] percentage point decrease, and for non-smokers, a 0.35 [CI −0.56 to −0.15] percentage point decrease. …”
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