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Indoor Tobacco Smoke Pollution a Major Risk Factor for Both Breast and Lung Cancer? [PDF]
Medical Dosimetry, 1988 Among 51 countries, those having high mortality rates for male lung cancer generally have high rates for female breast cancer (highest in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands). Conversely, those having low rates for one disease have low rates for both (P less than 0.001). Mortality rates available for 23 of the countries for 1954, 1964, and 1974 show
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Doubly-Robust Dynamic Treatment Regimen Estimation for Binary Outcomes [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In precision medicine, Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) are treatment protocols that adapt over time in response to a patient's observed characteristics. A DTR is a set of decision functions that takes an individual patient's information as arguments and outputs an action to be taken.
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Debiased Lasso After Sample Splitting for Estimation and Inference in High Dimensional Generalized Linear Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We consider random sample splitting for estimation and inference in high dimensional generalized linear models, where we first apply the lasso to select a submodel using one subsample and then apply the debiased lasso to fit the selected model using the remaining subsample.
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Children's exposure to second hand smoke at home: A cross-sectional study in Portugal
Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), 2015 Second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) is a major indoor pollutant that causes serious health problems for all exposed, especially children. Children are often exposed to SHS at home, due to parental or other householdsâ or guestsâ smoking.
Paulo D. Vitória +8 more
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On Using Chatbots to Promote Smoking Cessation Among Adolescents of Low Socioeconomic Status [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Reducing youth tobacco use is critical for improving child health since tobacco use is associated with respiratory problems, and nicotine may interfere with healthy brain development. While tobacco regulation has contributed to declines in cigarette use among youth, these declines have occurred more quickly for youth of high socioeconomic status (SES ...
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An Environmental Chamber Study of the Characteristics of Air Pollutants Released from Environmental Tobacco Smoke [PDF]
Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2012 Environment tobacco smoke (ETS) is an important source of anthropogenic pollution in indoor environments. This research reports an environmental chamber study of pollutants released from ETS generated by smoking cigarettes in the chamber. Six cigarettes samples sold in Hong Kong and China were characterized.
Kin Fai Ho +9 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objective To perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Parental Perceptions of Children’s Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (PPE) instrument to the Brazilian context. Results The cross-cultural adaptation process was performed in 10 stages.
Maria Alice Santos Tavares +3 more
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The Journal of Toxicological Sciences, 2008 Increased air pollution, containing carcinogenic particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microm (PM(2.5)), has gained particular attention in recent years as a causative factor in the increased incidence of respiratory diseases, including lung cancer. Extensive carcinogenicity studies conducted recently under Good Laboratory Practice conditions by National
Kohsuke Nozaki +2 more
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Current Activities in Smokes-Free Zone Policy: a Tobacco Control Care Reviews in Indonesia
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2018 Although the Republic of Indonesia’s government has not yet ratified the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), this nation has started to implement tobacco control care by establishing smoke-free zones (SFZs ...
Meita Veruswati +3 more
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Does gender really matter?
Lung India, 2011 Background: Limited data is available on the clinical expression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from India. The impact of gender on expression of COPD has received even less attention.
N K Jain +4 more
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