Smoking Behaviors Among Indigenous Pregnant People Compared to a Matched Regional Cohort.

Introduction: Smoking commercial tobacco products is highly prevalent in American Indian and Alaska Native (Indigenous) pregnancies. This disparity directly contributes to maternal and fetal mortality. Our objective was to describe cigarette smoking prevalence, cessation intervention uptake, and cessation behaviors of pregnant Indigenous people compared to sex and age-matched regional cohort.

Indigenous Smoking Behaviors in Olmsted County, Minnesota: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study.

Objective: To describe smoking behaviors and pharmaceutical cessation aid uptake in a population-based Indigenous cohort compared with an age- and sex-matched non-Indigenous cohort.

Patients And Methods: Using the health record-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project (January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2019), smoking data of Indigenous residents of Olmsted County in Minnesota were abstracted to define the smoking prevalence, incidence, cessation, relapse after cessation, and pharmaceutical smoking cessation aid uptake compared with a matched non-Indigenous cohort. Prevalence was analyzed with a modified Poisson regression; cessation and relapse were evaluated with generalized estimating equations.

TNF-Alpha Inhibition and Other Immunosuppressants in the Development of Uveal and Cutaneous Melanoma.

Objective: To investigate an association between tumor necrosis factors-alpha (TNFα) inhibitors or other immunosuppressants and the development of uveal and cutaneous melanoma.

Patients And Methods: We performed a retrospective incidence and case-control analysis of patients in Olmsted County, MN, who were diagnosed with uveal or cutaneous melanoma from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2014. Incidence was adjusted by age and gender to the 2010 US white population.

Parkinson Disease and Melanoma: Confirming and Reexamining an Association.

Objective: To examine an association between melanoma and Parkinson disease (PD).

Patients And Methods: Phase I: Rochester Epidemiology Project records were used to identify (between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 2013) patients with PD in Olmsted County, Minnesota, with 3 matched controls per case. After review, JMP statistical software with logistic regression analysis was used to assess the risk of preexisting melanoma in patients with PD vs controls.