Formation of multiple fundic gland polyps or hyperplastic in the gastric mucosa is one well-known adverse effects long-term acid suppression therapy for peptic ulcer disease. However, similar phenomenon has not been reported to occur duodenum. We report a case duodenal polypoid lesion that developed after use suppressants and disappeared cessation treatment. The patient was 76-year-old man with...

BACKGROUND Major behavioural risk factors are known to adversely affect health outcomes and be strongly associated with mental illness. However, little is known about the association of these risk factors with mental well-being in the general population. We sought to examine behavioural correlates of high and low mental well-being in the Health Survey for England. METHODS Participants were 13...

582 Point and Counterpoint prospective 12-month randomized control design study . PLoS ONE . 2013 ; 8 ( 6 ): e66317 . 6. Bullen C , Howe C , Laugesen M , et al . Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: a randomised controlled trial . Lancet . 2013 ; 382 ( 9905 ): 1629 1637 . 7. Meo SA , Al Asiri SA . Eff ects of electronic cigarette smoking on human health . Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci . 201...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer rates are lower in Asians and Latinos than in whites. Ethnic differences in nicotine metabolism might explain, in part, ethnic differences in cigarette consumption and/or nicotine intake per cigarette and resultant tobacco-related cancer risk. We compared the rate of nicotine metabolism and the intake of nicotine per cigarette smoked among smokers of different ethnicities...

We evaluated the association between alcohol consumption and carotid atherosclerosis in 261 consecutive patients greater than 50 years old admitted to our community-based primary-care center with first ischemic stroke; their characteristics were entered into a computerized data bank (Lausanne Stroke Registry). Reported regular alcohol consumption was compared with the presence and severity of i...

Nicotine replacement therapy is believed to facilitate smoking cessation both by relieving withdrawal symptoms and by reducing the psychological reward from smoking. The latter might occur via down-regulation of nicotine receptors in the brain, which might require high levels of nicotine exposure. Our study examined the hypothesis that transdermal nicotine, dosed up to three times the doses cur...

objective: to evaluate the importance of observing healthy habits by pregnant women that influences different aspects of mother and fetus health, we assessed the change in dietary behavior, and cigarette smoking after distributing the guidelines among 485 prenatal care patients. | materials and methods: the subjects were pregnant women who enrolled in health care centers of tehran university fr...

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer, the most common cancer in the world, is affected by some foods or food groups. We examined the relationship between dietary intake and stomach cancer risk in the Korean Multi-Center Cancer Cohort (KMCC). METHODS The KMCC included 19 688 Korean men and women who were enrolled from 1993 to 2004. Of those subjects, 9724 completed a brief 14-food frequency questionnaire...

BACKGROUND Based on the increased consumption of alcohol in Denmark the aim of this study was to measure prevalence of abnormal liver-derived enzymes in a homogeneous Danish population and possible associations with alcohol consumption, smoking and body mass index (BMI). METHOD In a representative population sample of 905 people (aged 30-50) from the baseline survey of the Ebeltoft Health Pro...