Smoke-Free Policies Among Asian-American Women

Smoke-Free Policies in the Workplace and in the Home among American Indians.

OBJECTIVES American Indians are more likely to smoke, less likely to have smoke-free homes, and potentially less likely to have worksite smoke-free policies. We examined correlates of smoke-free policies at home and work among a community-based sample of American Indians in the Midwest. METHODS We examined correlates of smoke-free policies at home and work in a sample of American Indians in t...

Urinary estrogen metabolites and their ratio among Asian American women.

Controversy persists regarding the role of a low ratio of 2-hydroxyestone (2-OHE(1))/16alpha-hydroxyestrone (16alpha-OHE(1)) as a potential estrogen metabolism marker of increased risk for breast cancer. Most of the evidence has been provided by case-control studies, where tumor effects on hormone metabolism are not known. Studies in populations at various risk of breast cancer are not consiste...

Disparities in cervical cancer survival among Asian-American women.

PURPOSE We compared overall survival and influencing factors between Asian-American women as a whole and by subgroup with white women with cervical cancer. METHODS Cervical cancer data were from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry; socioeconomic information was from the Area Health Resource File. We used standard tests to compare characteristics between groups; the Kaplan...

Smoke-Free–Home Rules Among Women With Infants, 2004–2008

INTRODUCTION Exposure to secondhand smoke increases risk for infant illness and death. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of complete smoke-free-home rules (smoking not allowed anywhere in the home) among women with infants in the United States. METHODS We analyzed 2004-2008 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System on 41,535 women who had recent live b...

Are smoke-free policies good for business?