passive smoking and the risk of coronary heart disease among married non-smoking women

PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN

Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospi...

Passive smoking and coronary heart disease in women.

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Passive cigarette smoking increases risk of coronary heart disease.

Despite the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease during recent decades, it is still the leading cause of death in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. In 1996 an estimated 476 124 residents of the United States died of coronary heart disease, representing more than one in every five persons who died in that year. In many economically developing countries, mortality from coro...

Passive Smoking and Breast Cancer Risk among Non-Smoking Women: A Case-Control Study in China

BACKGROUND The role of passive smoking on breast cancer risk was unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the association between passive smoking and breast cancer risk among Chinese women. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A hospital-based case-control study, including 877 breast cancer cases and 890 controls, frequency-matched by age and residence, was conducted. A structured questionnaire was used t...

Passive smoking and heart disease.

Passive Smoking and Heart Disease

T he first disease linked definitively to active smoking was lung cancer. It is, therefore, not surprising that the first disease identified as caused by passive smoking was also lung cancer.1 Before the advent of mass-marketed cigarettes, lung cancer was a rare disease. Because smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer, identification of this link for both active2 and passive smoking3-was re...