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Prevalence of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Among Population Aged 15 Years or Older, Vietnam, 2010 Full Text
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202 Effectiveness of an intensive E-mail based intervention in smoking cessation (TABATIC study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Full Text BMC Public Health, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
203 Dating Violence Among Urban, Minority, Middle School Youth and Associated Sexual Risk Behaviors and Substance Use Journal of School Health, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
204 Motivations to quit cannabis use in an adult non-treatment sample: Are they related to relapse? Addictive Behaviours, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
205 Alcohol Mixed with Energy Drinks: Are There Associated Negative Consequences beyond Hazardous Drinking in College Students? Addictive Behaviours, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
206 Is serving in the armed forces associated with tobacco or cannabis initiation? A study of onset sequences before and after joining the French armed forces Addictive Behaviours, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
207 Training general practitioners in remote Western Australia in a method of screening and brief intervention for harmful alcohol use: A pilot study Australian Journal of Rural Health, April 19, 2013 Clinical Article
208 Relationship Between Alcohol Intake and Lipid Accumulation Product in Middle-aged Men Alcohol and Alcoholism , April 18, 2013 Clinical Article
209 Pesticides and human diabetes: a link worth exploring? Diabetic Medicine, April 18, 2013 Review Article
210 Light drinking versus abstinence in pregnancy-behavioural and cognitive outcomes in 7-year-old children: a longitudinal cohort study BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, April 18, 2013 Clinical Article
211 Pharmacogenetics of CYP1A2 activity and inducibility in smokers and exsmokers Pharmacogenetics and genomics, April 18, 2013 Review Article
212 A prototype tobacco-associated oral squamous cell carcinoma classifier using RNA from brush cytology Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine, April 18, 2013 Clinical Article
213 Is roll-your-own tobacco substitute for manufactured cigarettes: evidence from Ireland? Journal of Public Health, April 18, 2013 Clinical Article
214 Effects of Academic Service Learning in Drug Misuse and Addiction on Students- Learning Preferences and Attitudes Toward Harm Reduction Full Text American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, April 18, 2013 Clinical Article
215 Maternal smoking, breastfeeding, and risk of childhood overweight: findings from a national cohort Maternal and Child Health Journal , April 17, 2013 Clinical Article
216 Sex and Age Differences in Alcoholic Pancreatitis in Japan: A Multicenter Nationwide Survey Pancreas, April 17, 2013 Clinical Article
217 Understanding tobacco industry pricing strategy and whether it undermines tobacco tax policy: the example of the UK cigarette market Addiction, April 17, 2013 Clinical Article
218 Association between use of contraband tobacco and smoking cessation outcomes: a population-based cohort study Canadian Medical Association Journal, April 16, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine
219 A Selective Insular Perfusion Deficit Contributes to Compromised Salience Network Connectivity in Recovering Alcoholic Men Biological Psychiatry, April 16, 2013 Clinical Article
220 Vested Interests in Addiction Research and Policy. Alliance between tobacco and alcohol industries to shape public policy Addiction, April 16, 2013 Clinical Article
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health conducted a study involving 96,008 women in the Nurse’s Health Study II with 18 years of follow up, which demonstrated a strikingly strong association with non-fatal cardiovascular disease. There were 2463 participants with psoriasis and 1,709,069 person-years of follow up. There were 713 cases of non-fatal cardiovascular disease (HR=1.55). The HRs for myocardial infarction and stroke were 1.70 and 1.45, respectively. For women with psoriatic arthritis, the HR was 3.47. For women < 40 years of age and psoriasis > 9 years, the HRs were 3.26 and 3.09, respectively.
Read the article summaryAs reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, two cytokine genes (IL-2RA and TNF/LTA) which have been implicated in autoimmune diseases are associated with severe alopecia areata. The study involved 768 patients with alopecia areata and 658 controls, and 26 cytokine genes were genotyped.
Read the article summaryAs reported in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and based on participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, Women’s Health Study, Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study, and Physicians’ Health Study II, total testosterone (RR = 0.62) and SHBG levels (RR = 0.65), and the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 2.63) are associated with colorectal cancer risk in men. An inverse association exists between the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 0.43) and colorectal cancer risk in women.
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