A case-control study of bidi smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risks imposed by tobacco smoking, in particular, bidi smoking, in the development of lung cancer. METHODS: Two hundred eighty-four histologically confirmed patients of bronchogenic carcinoma and 852 controls matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status were interviewed a...

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Autores principales: Prasad, R., Ahuja, R. C., Singhal, S., Srivastava, A. N., James, P., Kesarwani, V., Singh, D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20981185
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.69116
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risks imposed by tobacco smoking, in particular, bidi smoking, in the development of lung cancer. METHODS: Two hundred eighty-four histologically confirmed patients of bronchogenic carcinoma and 852 controls matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status were interviewed according to a predesigned questionnaire. Effects of individual variables defining the various aspects of tobacco smoking, in particular, bidi smoking, were assessed using logistic regression models. RESULTS: 81.3% cases of bronchogenic carcinoma were ever smokers as compared with 42.2% among controls. The odd ratios for ever smoking, bidi smoking, and cigarette smoking were 5.9 (confidence interval [CI] 4.3, 8.4), 6.1 (CI 4.3, 8.7), and 5.3 (CI 2.7, 10.4), respectively. CONCLUSION: Bidi smoking poses a very high risk for lung cancer even more than that of cigarette smoking.

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