Reduction of key risk factors could prevent 37 million deaths by 2025
Image PD 1. If target levels for 6 key risk factors (salt intake, tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure and glucose) ...
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Smoking may not affect short-term outcomes in cranial surgery
Image: PD 1. Current or prior history of smoking was not linked to worse 30-day operative morbidity and mortality. 2. ...
Number of lives saved due to tobacco control continues to rise
Image: PD/ Stanford. Vintage Smoking ad, 1949 1. Since 1964, tobacco control methods have resulted in 8.0 million premature smoking ...
Varenicline and buproprion more effective than varenicline alone for tobacco abstinence
Image: PD 1. The combination of varenicline and buproprion for 12 weeks was more effective than varenicline alone at achieving ...
Racial backgrounds key to shaping the face of smoking-related mortality in South Africa
Image: PD 1. Smoking prevalence among colored (mixed black and white ancestry) individuals in South Africa is substantially higher than ...
USPTF recommends tobacco counseling for adolescents by primary care physicians
Image: PD 1. Based on a review of recent evidence, the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) has released a ...
Many smokeless tobacco users also smoke
Image: PD 1. 5.6% of adolescents in this study used smokeless tobacco with 72.1% of smokeless tobacco users concurrently smoking ...
Parental smoking cessation intervention effective in pediatric practices
Image: PD 1. A 12-fold higher rate of delivering tobacco cessation programs to parents in child healthcare settings was seen ...
Smokeless tobacco use in children has not changed
Image: CC 1. Between 2000-2011, there was no significant variation in smokeless tobacco use among US middle and high school ...
Pediatric providers who completed tobacco education program more likely to educate parental smokers about quitting
Jan 19th - Pediatric providers were highly satisfied with the education program. 1. Online tobacco education programs motivated pediatric providers to ...
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