Gender differences and risk factors for smoking among patients with ...
Recommend Documents
2Department of Cardiology, Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, Wuhan, 430000, China. [Received ... chest pain centers, and all patients underwent PPCI. Patients were ...
Dactylitis and enthesitis, as well as swollen joint count, were significantly more common among women. In primary AS, there was a marked male predominance ...
Multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis identified older age group ($80 years of age, hazard ratio [HR] =3.15 [95% confidence interval 2.32â4.28]), male ...
Apr 1, 2003 - influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi. Design: ... Most student smokers were not discouraged by health warnings on the cigarette packets and awareness of .... Data management: EPI-INFO 6.02 statistical pack
Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: ... tension, are present, and the risk of adult cardio- ... blood pressure (SBP) as adults.
smoking among South African youth in Cape. Town. Design: Six-hundred ... search Council of South Africa (CL), South .... telephones, and an automobile) were.
Lamis, Malone, & Langhinrichsen-Rohling, 2010; Van Orden, Witte, Gordon,. Bender, & Joiner .... The INQ-12 (Van Orden et al, 2008) is a measure of two main components of Joiner's (2005) ..... IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers. Miller, I. W. ...
tuberculosis patients in Armenia. Arusyak ... School of Public Health, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia ... history of 27.9 years (SD = 14.5).
The purpose of this study was to identify gender differences in risk factors of fall ... older, fall accidents, gender differences, fear of falling, ADL, health survey, ...
tality among diabetics in a national sam- ple. Am J Epidemiol 128:389 â 401, .... Ford ES, DeStefano F: Risk factors for mortality from all causes and from coro-.
Oct 16, 2013 - MethodsaaBased on criteria established by the International Association for the Study of Pain, 39 patients diagnosed with CRPS Type 1.
until December 2003. AIDS was defined according to the 1993 revised classification system for HIV infection of the Centers for. Disease Control and Prevention7 ...
low life-expectancy, whereas males experience their .... Foundation; International Life Sciences Institute,. National Institutes of Health, New England Medical.
Apr 14, 1972 - c Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Aim: To identify factors associated with increased smoking risks among Kırıkkale University students using a ... Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Vietnam. It was.
Feb 18, 2015 - Results. RH-PAT indexes were attenuated in both male and female hypertensive patients [1.60. (1.38-2.02) vs. 1.63 (1.44-1.98)]. Multivariate ...
Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is increasing in prevalence worldwide. Treatment failure and relapse is known to be high for patients with isoniazid ...
Jan 31, 2009 - prefer games of strategy (e.g., poker, sports betting) compared to femelcs, who are more likely to .... Table 1 Gambling type preferences for game played least once A week. PPG ..... Dercvci~sky Rr R. Gupta (Eds,), Gnn~blin~.
Jan 31, 2009 - Springer Science+Business Media. CLC 2007. Abstract ... (16 males, 16 females) was 200 small to draw definitive conclusions. In examining ..... helpline. American JoarnnI oj Psychiatry. 15fl9). 1500-3 505. Reynolds, W. M. (1 ...
4. Hecht SS. Cigarette smoking and lung cancer: chemical mechanisms and approaches to prevention. ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disability ...
Social support and caregiver burden were comparable, but coping styles .... Utrecht Coping List.28 It consists of 47 items divided into ..... tical Manual of Mental Disorders.47 Lastly, we excluded .... De Utrechtse Coping Lijst: UCL; Omgaan.
Oct 17, 2016 - Factors among Overweight and Obese Rural Adults, Kuching and Samarahan Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. Whye Lian Cheah,1 Ching Thon ...
history, risk factors for smoking, and other health behaviours. ResultsâApproximately 32% of the train- ees smoked regularly before basic training and a small ...
Christopher Babua, Robert Kalyesubula, Emmy Okello, Barbara Kakande, Elias Sebatta,. Michael ..... Wasswa H. Uganda struggles to cope with rise in diabetes incidence. Br ... McClellan W, Flanders WD, Langston RD, et al. Anemia and renal.
Gender differences and risk factors for smoking among patients with ...
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia. 3 Department ... 5 Prince Mohammed. Medical .... Kendler KS, Prescott CA, Myers J, Neale MC.
Alosaimi et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2018) 12:21 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0201-7
International Journal of Mental Health Systems Open Access
RESEARCH
Gender differences and risk factors for smoking among patients with various psychiatric disorders in Saudi Arabia: a cross‑sectional study Fahad D. Alosaimi1*, Mohammed Abalhassan2, Bandar Alhaddad3, Ebtihaj O. Fallata4, Abdulhadi Alhabbad5, Rabab Alshenqiti6 and Mohammed Z. Alassiry7
Abstract Background: The higher prevalence of smoking among psychiatric patients is well established. However, genderspecific associations have rarely been the focus of studies among patients with various psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to estimate the gender-specific prevalence of current smoking by psychiatric patients and its association with various psychiatric disorders and the use of psychotropic medications. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was performed between July 2012 and June 2014. Patients were recruited from six hospitals located in the five regions of Saudi Arabia. Results: Of the 1193 patients, 402 (33.7%) were current smokers. The incidence of current smoking was much higher among males than females (58.3% versus 6.7%, p
