Cigarette smoking has known negative effects on physical and mental health. Over 16 million Americans suffer from smoking-related illnesses, and one-third of individuals with mental health issues are also cigarette sm...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22076091);the Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong(No.2020CXGC011406);the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing(No.8212029);the joint project of the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control(No.21L01ESPC)。
Nitrosamines are a class of carcinogens which have been detected widely in food,water,some pharmaceuticals as well as tobacco.The objectives of this paper include reviewing the basic information on tobacco consumption...
supported by the National Key Research and Develop-ment Program of China(No.2016YFC1303905);the Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program.
Background:Nicotine dependence,also known as tobacco dependence,is a common chronic disease and a major risk factor for chronic respiratory diseases.The present study was designed to determine the prevalence of nicoti...
Introduction: The use of biomass for cooking is a very common practice in Africa and Benin, and is associated with exposure to organic pollutants. The aim of this study was to assess carbon monoxide exposure and respi...
supported in part by the Siteman Cancer Center Precision Medicine Pathway(Grant No.T32CA113275);Erica C.Pehrsson is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Cancer Society(Grant No.PF-17-201-01);Erica C.Pehrsson,Jennifer A.Karlow,and Ting Wang are supported by the National Institutes of Health[Grant Nos.R01HG007354(National Human Genome Research Institute);R01HG007175(National Human Genome Research Institute);R01ES024992(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences);U01CA200060(National Cancer Institute);U24ES026699(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences);U01HG009391(National Human Genome Research Institute)];the American Cancer Society(Grant No.RSG-14-049-01-DMC).
Epigenetic alterations are widespread in cancer and can complement genetic alterations to influence cancer progression and treatment outcome.To determine the potential contribution of DNA methylation alterations to tu...
supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute(KHIDI),funded by the Ministry of Health&Welfare,Republic of Korea(grant number:HV22C0233);the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(NRF2021R1I1A2059735)。
Background Although smoking is classified as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes,there is a scarcity of studies on prevalence of smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic.Thus,this study aims to analyze the trends o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81772466);Shanghai Rising-Star Program(21QC1400600);Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(2017YFA0505500,2016YFA0501800);Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(19XD1401300).
Recently,an increasing number of young never-smokers are diagnosed with lung cancer.The aim of this study is to investigate the genetic predisposition of lung cancer in these patients and discover candidate pathogenic...
Cigarette smoking is considered a risk factor for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD).In a study recently published in Nature,Chen et al.unveiled a mechanistic role of nicotine in NAFLD progression.In addition,the...
Background: Electronic cigarette (e-cigs) smoking is substitutional to traditional cigarette smoking to reduce the dangerous combustion of products. Moreover, passive smoking is involuntarily tobacco smoking due to th...
This study was supported by American Cancer Society,Sigma Theta Tau,and China Scholarship Council.Reimbursement for participants’participation was supported by the funding.
Objective This study aims to explore health beliefs toward lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography among Chinese American high-risk smokers.Methods Guided by the Health Belief Model,semi-structured ind...