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Headliners: Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Respiratory Effects Linked to Genetic Susceptibility
Background: Coronary flow reserve (CFR) recording by means of transthoracic echocardiography (TTDE) in all the main distal coronary arteries is a challenge for advanced echocardiography. Validation studies of TTDE versus Doppler-wire (DW) recordings are available for Left Anterior Descending artery (LAD) and the Posterior Descending coronary artery (PD), but lacking for the more technically cha...
متن کاملEnvironmental tobacco smoke epidemiology.
The Focus article "Double Exposure" [EHP 107:A196-A201 (1999)] mistakenly reported that a meta-analysis of epidemiology studies examining the relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and human cancer was prepared for the review of ETS in consideration for listing in the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Report on Carcinogens. We would like to point out that the results...
متن کاملEnvironmental tobacco smoke.
I read with interest the article from Bermudez et al., "Environmental Tobacco Smoke Is Just as Damaging to DNA as Mainstream Smoke" (EHP 102: 870-874). Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a complex mixture of chemicals resulting from dilution in a confined environment of tobacco smoke. ETS has three forms: 1) sidestream smoke (SS) is produced by a cigarette during the puff intervals, 2) mainst...
متن کاملEnvironmental tobacco smoke.
Environmental tobacco smoke is an important contaminant of indoor air. For a non-smoker living with a smoker the exposure is equivalent to about 1% of that from actively smoking 20 cigarettes a day (based on plasma cotinine). There is strong and consistent evidence that passive smoking increases the risk of lung cancer. It is estimated that there is an increase in risk of 24% (95% confidence in...
متن کاملEnvironmental tobacco smoke.
B ans on smoking in public places and workplaces, including bars and restaurants, have recently been introduced in California and New York City and have been announced in Ireland. In addition, the UK Chief Medical Officer and the EU Health Commissioner have recently called for a ban on smoking in public places. Despite clear evidence that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) adversely affects heal...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.111-a699