PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between prostatic vessel changes induced by cigarette smoking and the perioperative outcome of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 268 postoperative patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) were prospectively analysed in our department. They were divided into two groups (smokers and non-smokers) accor...

The authors evaluated alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking in relation to risk of colorectal polyps in a Nashville, Tennessee, colonoscopy-based case-control study. In 2003-2005, cases with adenomatous polyps only (n = 639), hyperplastic polyps only (n = 294), and both types of polyps (n = 235) were compared with 1,773 polyp-free controls. Unordered polytomous logistic regression was used to ...

OBJECTIVE We studied the effect of stopping smoking on disease activity in patients with RA. METHODS Between 1992 and 2005, 2,800 adult patients were included in the BARFOT early RA study in Sweden. Disease Activity Score 28 joints (DAS28), C-reactive protein (CRP), Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), rheumatoid factor (RF), anti-CCP, general health and pain visual analog scales (VAS), EUL...

There is an overlap of risk factors between heart disease and COPD like cigarette smoking, sedentary lifestyle old age. The economic burden also very high. It now proven that the only strategy which can reduce incidence cessation smoking. Aim present research to study Two-dimensional transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) findings in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD).The method a...

Background: Cigarette smoking is implicated in a large number of diseases and other adverse health conditions. Among the dimensions of smoking are number of cigarettes smoked per day, duration of smoking, passive smoking, smoking of filter cigarettes, age at start, and duration elapsed since quitting by ex-smokers. The practice so far is to study most of these separately. We develop a simple in...

  Abstract   Background : Noise is the most common hazard in the workplace and noise induced   hearing loss considered to be the most common occupational disease as well.   Cigarette smoking, in some studies, has been known to induce hearing loss. The purpose   of this study was to evaluate the effect of contemporary exposure to occupational   noise and cigarette smoking on hearing.   Methods :...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of cigarette smoking status, cumulative smoking exposure, and time from cessation on intravesical recurrence (IVR) outcomes in patients treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). PATIENTS AND METHODS In all, 519 patients underwent RNU at five institutions. Smoking history included smoking status, quantity of cigare...

BACKGROUND The association between breast cancer and tobacco smoke is currently unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of smoking behaviours on the risk of breast cancer among three ethnic groups of New Zealand women. METHODS A population-based case-control study was conducted including breast cancer cases registered on the New Zealand Cancer Registry between 2005 and 2007. C...

Cigarette smoking doubles the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Various pathophysiological pathways have been proposed to cause such a cognitive decline, but the exact mechanisms remain unclear. Smoking may affect the microstructural integrity of cerebral white matter. Diffusion tensor imaging is known to be sensitive for microstructural changes in cerebral white matter. We therefore cr...