Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we...
Summary
Guidelines for levels of alcohol use that pose a low risk to drinkers' health are provided by many countries, usually based on meta-analyses of epidemiological studies.1–3 However, to devise such guidelines is challenging because...
A study published in the Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy journal details the prevalence of substance use amongst students from Debre Berhan University in Central Ethiopia.
Substance use behaviors of 695 students were...
A study exploring the factors leading to menstrual cycle irregularity and menopause has discovered smoking may contribute to irregular menstrual cycles. The research, carried out in Korea, also found an association with the early initiation...
Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are rapidly emerging into a new trend among adolescents, signaling a new époque, that of vapers. E-cigarettes are battery-powered nicotine delivery devices that heat a typically flavoring...
Alcohol and drug use are leading causes of morbidity and mortality that frequently go unidentified in medical settings. As part of a multi-phase study to implement electronic health record-integrated substance use...
A study published in the Lancet details the discovery of a link between the respiratory disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and childhood exposure to parental smoking or childhood illnesses, such as asthma, bronchitis...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found an association with young people being exposed to adverts for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and taking up smoking later in life.
The study followed 10 989...
Il binge drinking (quattro o più drink per le donne, cinque o più drink per gli uomini in un'occasione) rappresenta più della metà degli 88.000 decessi negli Stati Uniti derivanti da un consumo eccessivo di alcol ogni anno...
La ricerca condotta in Nord America ha evidenziato differenze nelle abitudini di fumo giovanile per gli individui che si identificano come eterosessuali e quelli che si identificano come lesbiche, gay o bisessuali (LGB).
Lo studio si...
To assess the cost‐effectiveness of alternative smoking cessation scenarios from the perspective of the Spanish National Health Service (NHS).
We used the European study on Quantifying Utility of Investment...
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Il suicidio è un grave problema di salute pubblica. È la terza causa di morte tra le persone statunitensi di età compresa tra 10 e 17 anni. Nello Utah, il tasso di suicidio tra le persone...
Il cancro è un problema di salute significativo in Medio Oriente e nella popolazione globale. E' ben noto che esiste un legame diretto tra il fumo di tabacco e il cancro, che continuerà a rappresentare una minaccia significativa per la...
Contesto: L'uso di metanfetamina di cristallo (ghiaccio) e i danni associati per individui, famiglie e comunità in tutta l'Australia sono stati oggetto di crescente preoccupazione negli ultimi anni. La fornitura di informazioni...
Obiettivo: Capire quale numero e proporzione di casi di demenza nelle Barbados sono attribuibili a fattori di stile di vita modificabili e quale effetto avrebbe una riduzione di questi fattori di rischio sulla futura prevalenza...
Background: Annually, 600 000 deaths are attributed to exposure of non-smokers to secondhand smoke (SHS). These include 165 000 among children, about 60% of which occur in Africa and Southeast Asia. As of 2017, only seven...
Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of a combined classroom curriculum and parental intervention (the Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme (STAMPP)), compared with alcohol education as normal (EAN), in reducing...
Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Centre for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health have been exploring the link between drug dependence, ongoing drug use, relapse and exposure to stress or experience of stressful events...
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