Smoking and chronic respiratory disease: finding in surveys carried out in 1957 and 1966 in Staveley in Derbyshire, England.

Population studies of chronic respiratory disease. A comparison of miners, foundryworkers, and others in Staveley. Derbyshire.

Coronary disease in Staveley, Derbyshire with an international comparison with three towns in Marion county, West Virginia.

THE REPORTED death rate from coronary heart disease in men aged 35-64 is approximately half as high again in the United States as in the United Kingdom. Reid and his colleagues [l] have shown that the prevalence of cardiac pain and the frequency of electrocardiographic changes suggestive of myocardial ischaemia are commoner in middle-aged American than in British males. Their observations were ...

A 20-year follow-up of men aged 55-64 including coal-miners and foundry workers in Staveley, Derbyshire.

A survey carried out in 1957 by the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit was based on a private census, with brief industrial histories of men aged 55-64 and 25-34. Four groups were established in this way--"non-dusty," "pure coal-mining," "pure foundry," and "other and mixed." In the 55-64 age group all 387 men have been followed up except for one man, about whom we have no informati...

Prevalence of Comorbidities in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: In this study, we aimed to assess the prevalence of comorbidities in the confirmed COVID-19 patients. Thismight help showing which comorbidity might pose the patients at risk of more severe symptoms.Methods: We searched all relevant databases on April 7th, 2020 using the keywords (“novel coronavirus” OR COVID-19OR SARS-CoV-2 OR Coronavirus) AND (comorbidities OR cl...

The relation between smoking habits and physique, respiratory symptoms, ventilatory function, and radiological pneumoconiosis amongst coal workers at three Scottish collieries.

Smoking has for some time been strongly suspected of being a major aetiological factor in chronic bronchitis. Confirmatory evidence has accrued from many epidemiological studies involving widely different populations. Abbott, Hopkins, Van Fleit, and Robinson (1953) found that, in 294 hospital patients with emphysema and cough, tobacco smoking could be incriminated as an aetiological factor in a...