Influence of smoking on HIV infection among HIV-infected Japanese men

We performed a cross-sectional study that included 100 HIV-infected Japanese men without hemophilia to examine the influence of smoking on HIV infection. History of smoking was obtained using a questionnaire. The percentage of current smokers was 40 % and was the highest (50 %) among men in their fo...

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Autores principales: Oka, Fukuko, Naito, Toshio, Oike, Miki, Saita, Mizue, Inui, Akihiro, Uehara, Yuki, Mitsuhashi, Kazunori, Isonuma, Hiroshi, Hisaoka, Teruhiko, Shimbo, Takuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10156-012-0489-1
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Sumario:We performed a cross-sectional study that included 100 HIV-infected Japanese men without hemophilia to examine the influence of smoking on HIV infection. History of smoking was obtained using a questionnaire. The percentage of current smokers was 40 % and was the highest (50 %) among men in their forties. The mean Brinkman index (BI, number of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by years of smoking) was 450. The percentage of patients with a BI ≥600 was significantly higher in patients with an AIDS-defining event than in those without an AIDS-defining event. A BI ≥600 was associated with an AIDS-defining event. Reducing smoking appears to be critical to enhancing disease management efforts in Japanese men with HIV.

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