Publications by authors named "B N Leistikow"
Article Synopsis
- A meta-analysis demonstrates a link between smoking and increased severity of COVID-19, but the relation to infection risk remains unclear.
- The study reanalyzed data from a historical challenge study that exposed healthy participants to cold viruses, comparing current smokers to non-smokers based on cotinine levels.
- Results indicate current smokers have a higher risk of infection and illness, but the specific risk for the coronavirus 229E was not statistically significant.
Background: In California, state prison inmates are employed to fight wildfires, which involves performing soil-disrupting work. Wildfires have become more common, including areas where Coccidioides, the soil-dwelling fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis, proliferates. However, work practices that place wildland firefighters at risk for coccidioidomycosis have not been investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA large outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurred at a California state prison in August 2015. We conducted environmental and epidemiological investigations to identify the most likely source of exposure and characterise morbidity. Sixty-four inmates had probable Legionnaires' disease; 14 had laboratory-confirmed legionellosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the study was to examine the association of different measures of obesity (body mass index or BMI, waist circumference or WC, waist to hip ratio or WHR and waist height ratio or WHtR) with coronary heart disease (CHD) in a Bangladeshi population. The study included 189 hospitalized CHD cases (133 men and 52 women) and 201 controls (137 men and 68 women). Logistic regression was done to assess the associations between obesity and CHD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Although cigarette smoking remains the most common risk factor for heart disease among the young, few studies have explored the relationship of smoking with heart disease mortality risk among young people. This prospective study assesses the risk and burden of all heart disease (HD) and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality associated with smoking among younger adults from a nationally representative sample of the United States.
Method: National Health Interview Survey respondents' data from 1997-2004 were linked to their death records through 2006.