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Acne and smoking: is there a relationship?
BACKGROUND: There are contradictory reports on the relationship between acne vulgaris and cigarette smoking. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between acne and cigarette smoking in a case-control study. METHODS: A questionnaire on smoking habits was offered to 350 patients with...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15790395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-5-2 |
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author | Firooz, Alireza Sarhangnejad, Reza Davoudi, Seyyed Massoud Nassiri-Kashani, Mansour |
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description | BACKGROUND: There are contradictory reports on the relationship between acne vulgaris and cigarette smoking. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between acne and cigarette smoking in a case-control study. METHODS: A questionnaire on smoking habits was offered to 350 patients with acne vulgaris and 350 patients suffering from skin diseases other than acne, aged 15 – 40 years, attending in a skin clinic in Tehran, Iran. The patients completed the questionnaires anonymously in the waiting room. RESULTS: Two hundred and ninety-three patients with acne (response rate 83.7 %) and 301 patients with other skin diseases (response rate 86.0 %) completed the questionnaires. Twelve acne patients (4.1 %) and 27 control patients (9.0 %) were current smokers (odds ratio = 0.43, 95% confidence limits 0.22 – 0.87, p < 0.05). But after adjustment for sex, this difference was not significant (odds ratio: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.30–1.26, p > 0.05, Mantel-Haenszel test). CONCLUSION: An association between acne and cigarette smoking was not found in this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-10798052005-04-15 Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? Firooz, Alireza Sarhangnejad, Reza Davoudi, Seyyed Massoud Nassiri-Kashani, Mansour BMC Dermatol Research Article BACKGROUND: There are contradictory reports on the relationship between acne vulgaris and cigarette smoking. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between acne and cigarette smoking in a case-control study. METHODS: A questionnaire on smoking habits was offered to 350 patients with acne vulgaris and 350 patients suffering from skin diseases other than acne, aged 15 – 40 years, attending in a skin clinic in Tehran, Iran. The patients completed the questionnaires anonymously in the waiting room. RESULTS: Two hundred and ninety-three patients with acne (response rate 83.7 %) and 301 patients with other skin diseases (response rate 86.0 %) completed the questionnaires. Twelve acne patients (4.1 %) and 27 control patients (9.0 %) were current smokers (odds ratio = 0.43, 95% confidence limits 0.22 – 0.87, p < 0.05). But after adjustment for sex, this difference was not significant (odds ratio: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.30–1.26, p > 0.05, Mantel-Haenszel test). CONCLUSION: An association between acne and cigarette smoking was not found in this study. BioMed Central 2005-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC1079805/ /pubmed/15790395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-5-2 Text en Copyright © 2005 Firooz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Firooz, Alireza Sarhangnejad, Reza Davoudi, Seyyed Massoud Nassiri-Kashani, Mansour Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title | Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title_full | Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title_fullStr | Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title_full_unstemmed | Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title_short | Acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
title_sort | acne and smoking: is there a relationship? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15790395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-5-2 |
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