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BMC Public Health
January 2025
Department of Gastroenterology, Endoscopic Center, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Minimally Invasive, Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Techniques, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, No. 36 Sanhao Street, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning Province, China.
Background: Cholelithiasis are a condition that creates an economic and medical burden on society, and women are more susceptible to gallbladder stones. However, the effect of smoking on the development of gallstones remains controversial. No studies, to our knowledge, have discussed the association between smoke exposure and gallstones separately in men and women.
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January 2025
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington, DC, United States.
Introduction: The prevalence of cigarette smoking is high among U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assistance recipients, putting others at risk for secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure.
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September 2024
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: The burden of pediatric asthma and other allergic diseases is not evenly distributed among United States populations.
Objective: To determine whether urinary biomarkers are associated with asthma morbidity, and if associations vary by child race, ethnicity and sex.
Methods: This study includes n = 152 children with physician-diagnosed asthma who participated in the School Inner-City Asthma Intervention Study (SICAS-2).
Nicotine Tob Res
June 2024
Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Introduction: Evidence on smokeless tobacco (ST) cessation interventions is scarce. The South Asian (SA) region that shares more than 90% of the burden of ST use is grossly underrepresented in research on ST cessation. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of delivering and investigating a behavioral support intervention for ST cessation in dental settings in Pakistan.
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December 2023
Centre for Arctic Health & Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Build. 1260, Bartholin Allé 2, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark; Greenland Center for Health Research, University of Greenland, 3905, Nuuk, Greenland.
Persistent organic pollutants (POP) are environmental contaminants transported over long distances to the Arctic where they biomagnify in marine mammals subsistence hunted by Inuit and may therefore affect human health. Marine mammals in east Greenland are known to have the highest POP concentrations in the circumpolar Arctic area. Due to high intake of marine mammals, east Greenlandic Inuit likewise have the highest POP body burdens across the Arctic.
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