OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of and characteristics associated with Sri Lankan adolescents' chewing of areca. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study based on a self-administered questionnaire. PARTICIPANTS 633, 15-year-olds in the Bandarawela education zone of Sri Lanka. RESULTS Nearly 7% of the sample were current chewers of arecanut and 1% of commercially avail...

PURPOSE This study aimed to determine the association between tobacco consumption (kretek) and betel quid chewing with oral cancer risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 81 cases of oral cancers were matched with 162 controls in this hospital-based study. Information on sociodemographic characteristics and details of risk habits (duration, frequency and type of tobacco consumption and betel q...

BACKGROUND Areca nut is the fourth main psychoactive substance in the world. In India, tobacco is added to the quid and the commercially manufactured nonperishable forms of betel quid (pan masala or gutkha) are on the rise in the market. OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of areca nut among the rural residents of Sriperambudur Taluk. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A community-based survey using pre-...

Betel nuts prematurely harvested and allowed to dry in heaps contain moisture which permits Aspergillus flavous to enter and spread over the central portions. Such betel - nuts consumed with betel leaves can cause cancer of the mouth since A. flavus is a carcinogen. Samples collected showed that the most betel - nuts were contaminated.

2002 Winstock A. Areca nut-abuse liability, dependence and public health. Addict Biol 2002; 7:133± 8. Williams S, Malik A, Chowdhury S, Chauhan S. Socio-cultural aspects of areca nut use. Addict Biol 2002;7:147± 54. Warnakulasuriya S. Areca nut use following migration and its consequences. Addict Biol 2002;7:127± 32. Trivedy CR, Craig G, Warnakulasuriya S. The oral health consequences of chewin...

OBJECTIVE To observe the smoking patterns among high school students in Sarakhs County, Iran. METHODS This is a cross sectional school based survey. The study population was 943 high school students grade 9-12, from Sarakhs County in study year 2010-2011. Study tool was a self-administrated questionnaire. RESULTS From 943 participating students, 181(19.2%) had history of smoking. The mean a...

Betel leaf is a plant that grows lot in Indonesia and can be easily found anywhere. The efficacy of betel as healing drug from various scientific research results concludes has very nutritious ingredients millions benefits for health. tradition nut strengthen teeth because ancient people already knew the green which treat several diseases, this study explains how medicinal ingredients. This was...

Mamaq by the ancestors of Sasak people was an activity chewing betel nut, lime, leaf, and tobacco, ending with shrinkage. Betel leaves contain glycosides, steroids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, tannins, anthraquinones. These compounds antimicrobial that can fight Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans fungi. Meanwhile, whiting is a strong base because it has pH 11-12.5. This in...

The World Health Organization regards betel quid as a human carcinogen, and DSM-IV and ICD-10 dependence symptoms may develop with heavy use. This study, conducted in central Taiwan, investigated whether betel quid chewers can exhibit overt orienting to selectively respond to the betel quid cues. Twenty-four male chewers' and 23 male nonchewers' eye movements to betel-quid-related pictures and ...