Subgingival Delivery of Statins as an Adjunct in the Non-Surgical Treatment of Periodontitis: A Systematic Review by Magdalena Maria Pietrzko, Maciej Pietrzko, Wojciech Niemczyk, Dariusz Skaba, Rafał Wiench

“…Results: The improvement was more pronounced in patients without systematic diseases compared to those with type II diabetes and in non-smokers compared to smoking patients. Greater improvements in clinical and radiological parameters were seen in patients diagnosed with aggressive periodontitis compared to patients with chronic periodontitis. …”
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Effects on Serum Fractalkine by Diet and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intervention: Relation to Clinical Outcome by Kristian Laake, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Morten Wang Fagerland, Ida Unhammer Njerve, Harald Arnesen, Svein Solheim

“…Lower fractalkine levels were observed in smokers (P=0.019). Conclusions. Reduced levels of fractalkine from baseline to 3 years were observed, however, without any influence of Mediterranean-like diet or n-3 PUFA supplementation. …”
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Hypertension Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Middle-Aged Adults in Chongqing, China by Xianglong Xu, Yunshuang Rao, Zumin Shi, Lingli Liu, Cheng Chen, Yong Zhao

“…Nonsmokers had a poorer state of bodily pain than smokers. This study provides detailed information of the implications for health care providers to gain a more complete picture of their hypertension patients’ health.…”
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Mitochondrial Mayhem: How cigarette smoke induces placental dysfunction through MMS19 degradation by Pei Zhou, Feng Jin, Shenshen Yao, Ben Sun, Ni Sun, Hongbo Guan, Xiaomei Liu

“…Analysis of placental tissues from maternal smokers further confirmed the disruption of ISC proteins and the SMAD pathway. …”
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Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Characteristics, and Interventions of Braid-Like Coronary Artery: Case Series Analysis Based on Optical Coherence Tomography by Wen-Xiu Leng, Huan-Huan Wang, Hai Ming Liu, Ying Song, Lian-Jun Xu, Jing-Jing Xu, Xue-Yan Zhao, Xiao-Yan Tan, Rong Li, Zhan Gao, Li-Jian Gao, Jue Chen, Jin-Qing Yuan, Yue-Jin Yang, Ji-Lin Chen

“…All patients were heavy smokers. Four patients were diagnosed with an old myocardial infarction and the other 3 with unstable angina. …”
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The Influence of Physical Activity, Fast Food, and Body Composition on Hypercholesterolemia in Young Adults: A Step Toward SDGs - Good Health and Well-being by Sari Hesti Permata, Fadlilah Synta Haqqul, Febriani Ayu Rizky, Yasmin Alya, Fadilah Fitria Nur, Azizah Nisa Fithri

“…Participants were 19-25 yo, non-smokers, and had no Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) history. …”
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Metagenomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Crosstalk Between Intratumor Mycobiome and Hosts in Early‐Stage Nonsmoking Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients by Yaohui Sun, Zhiming Gan, Shijiancong Liu, Sheng Zhang, Wei Zhong, Jian Liu, Xiuting Huang, Wei He, Hongcheng Zhong, Qingdong Cao

“…ABSTRACT Background The mycobiome in the tumor microenvironment of non‐smokers with early‐stage lung adenocarcinoma (ES‐LUAD) has been minimally investigated. …”
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Canadian Thoracic Society Recommendations for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – 2003 by Denis E O’donnell, Shawn Aaron, Jean Bourbeau, Paul Hernandez, Darcy D Marciniuk, Meyer Balter, Gordon Ford, Andre Gervais, Roger Goldstein, Rick Hodder, Francois Maltais, Jeremy Road

“…Targeted spirometry is strongly recommended to expedite early diagnosis in smokers and exsmokers who develop respiratory symptoms, and who are at risk for COPD. …”
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The Role of Education in Preventing E-Smoking Behavior is to Increase Student Knowledge and Attitudes by Sri Sunarti, Tukimin bin Sansuwito, Purwo Setiyo Nugroho, Nida Amalia, Rusni Masnina, Linda Suwarni

“…The number of teenage smokers in the city of Samarinda reached 29.69%. While there is a significant level of access to advertisements for cigarettes on television and the internet, 15.7% of people access the internet, and 41.5% of people access electronic cigarettes with their peers. …”
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Prevalence of Certain Urogenital Bacterial Mollicutes in Patients Suffering from Infertility by Motasem Y. Al-Masri, Intesar Khaleel Ashour, Ashraf Swafta, Sami Al-Shunar

“…M. hominis was also more prevalent in all occupation types and among all smokers. Conclusion. Urogenital infections caused by M. hominis, M. genitalium, and U. urealyticum could be a possible cause of infertility among patients with different age groups, genders, and occupations. …”
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Characteristics, treatment patterns, and biomarker testing of patients with advanced RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer in a real-world multi-country observational stud... by Urpo Kiiskinen, Grace Segall, Hollie Bailey, Cameron Forshaw, Tarun Puri

“…A smaller RET fusion-positive cohort comprised patients from the overall aNSCLC cohort who had RET fusion-positive disease and no other co-alterations, plus an oversample of patients with RET fusion-positive disease and no other co-alterations.ResultsPatient characteristics were generally similar between the overall aNSCLC cohort (n=2947) and the RET fusion-positive cohort (n=576), aside from higher proportions of White/Caucasian patients, never smokers, and adenocarcinoma among the RET fusion-positive cohort. …”
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THE LIFESTYLE OF A MODERN GIRL AS A FACTOR DETERMINING REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL by Карина Ниловна Мингареева, Альфия Галимовна Ящук, Ксения Николаевна Ящук

“…Among the respondents, 5.8 % of respondents out of 270 smokers smoke daily. A very small part of the students (6.2 %) have not tried alcohol, the majority 53.7 % drank an alcoholic drink for the first time at the age of 16. …”
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Predictors of county-level diabetes-related mortality risks in Florida, USA: a retrospective ecological study by Nirmalendu Deb Nath, Agricola Odoi

“…Significantly high county-level DRMR were observed in counties with high percentages of the population that were: 65 year and older (p < 0.001), current smokers (p = 0.032), and insufficiently physically active (p = 0.036). …”
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Development of a theoretical framework based on the MAPR model for stage-based, individualized mobile smoking cessation interventions through systematic literature review and exper... by Shuilian CHU, Hang JING, Lirong LIANG, Jun LI

“…The second layer defines five stages of cessation experienced by smokers: contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse. …”
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Role of Diabetes in the Prognosis and Therapeutic Outcome of Tuberculosis by Syed Azhar Syed Suleiman, Daud M. Ishaq Aweis, Ali Jimale Mohamed, Abdul RazakMuttalif, Mohamed A. A. Moussa

“…The diabetic TB patient group contained more males (72%) and smokers (45.5%) compared to the nondiabetic group (58.3% and 33.5%, resp.). …”
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Relationship between Undernutrition and Periodontal Diseases among a Sample of Yemeni Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Milad Al-Kalisi, Manal Al-Hajri, Sarah Al-Rai

“…Regarding habits, only 18.2% (n = 43) of patients were smokers and about half of the participants (n = 136, 59.4%) were khat chewers. …”
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The policy and practice of establishing healthy eating in preschool children in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina: a qualitative study by S. Stojisavljevic, B. Djikanovic, D. Stojisavljevic, D. Manigoda, J. Niskanovic

“…The participants perceived cookers as resistant and “old-fashioned” in preparing meals, which was found to be a significant challenge that requires education training and ongoing supervision with support. …”
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A central role for Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in K-Ras-driven lung tumorigenesis. by Courtney A Granville, Regan M Memmott, Andria Balogh, Jacopo Mariotti, Shigeru Kawabata, Wei Han, Jaclyn Lopiccolo, Jason Foley, David J Liewehr, Seth M Steinberg, Daniel H Fowler, M Christine Hollander, Phillip A Dennis

“…<h4>Background</h4>K-Ras mutations are characteristic of human lung adenocarcinomas and occur almost exclusively in smokers. In preclinical models, K-Ras mutations are necessary for tobacco carcinogen-driven lung tumorigenesis and are sufficient to cause lung adenocarcinomas in transgenic mice. …”
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Overall quit in triple users of conventional cigarette, e-cigarette and heated tobacco product among healthy adults: a Korea Medical Institute health check-up study by Sun Ha Jee, Heejin Kimm, Keum Ji Jung, Hye Won Yun

“…We aimed to analyse overall quit in triple users of CC, EC and HTP among healthy adults.Methods A questionnaire was conducted on 89 360 adults who visited the Korea Medical Institute health check-ups in Seoul, Korea, from May 2018 to September 2019. Among 38 812 ever smokers, 9252 were ever triple users of CC, EC and HTP. …”
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Estimation of Global Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensive Patients from the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos by Lucía Baños Leyva, Milagros Lisset León Regal, Luis Alberto Mass Sosa, Jacqueline Zamora Galindo, José Andy Hernández Quintana, Judeny Colls Cañizares

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the female gender, the age group of 50-69 years, non-diabetics and non-smokers, with normal cholesterol and prehypertensive predominated. 93.3 % presented low overall cardiovascular risk and 6.7 % moderate to critical. …”
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