Public health implications of raising the minimum age of legal access to tobacco products

LY Kwan, K Stratton, RJ Bonnie - 2015 - books.google.com
Tobacco use by adolescents and young adults poses serious concerns. Nearly all adults
who have ever smoked daily first tried a cigarette before 26 years of age. Current cigarette …

A literature review on prevalence of gender differences and intersections with other vulnerabilities to tobacco use in the United States, 2004–2014

ST Higgins, AN Kurti, R Redner, TJ White… - Preventive …, 2015 - Elsevier
This report describes results from a systematic literature review examining gender
differences in US prevalence rates of current use of tobacco and nicotine delivery products …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer incidence trends by gender, race and histology in the United States, 1973–2010

R Meza, C Meernik, J Jeon, ML Cote - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Lung cancer (LC) incidence in the United States (US) continues to decrease but
with significant differences by histology, gender and race. Whereas squamous, large and …

Burden of type 2 diabetes in Mexico: past, current and future prevalence and incidence rates

R Meza, T Barrientos-Gutierrez, R Rojas-Martinez… - Preventive …, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction Mexico diabetes prevalence has increased dramatically in recent years.
However, no national incidence estimates exist, hampering the assessment of diabetes …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the potential effects of new tobacco products and policies: a dynamic population model for multiple product use and harm

ED Vugrin, BL Rostron, SJ Verzi, NS Brodsky… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Recent declines in US cigarette smoking prevalence have coincided with
increases in use of other tobacco products. Multiple product tobacco models can help …

The role of gastroesophageal reflux and other factors during progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma

WD Hazelton, K Curtius, JM Inadomi, TL Vaughan… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2015 - AACR
Background: US esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) incidence increased over 5-fold
between 1975 and 2009. Symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease (sGERD) elevates …

[PDF][PDF] Markov modeling to estimate the population impact of emerging tobacco products: a proof-of-concept study

CO Cobb, AC Villanti, AL Graham, JL Pearson… - Tob Regul …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Objectives: To develop a modeling tool to assess the population impact of emerging tobacco
products and demonstrate its utility. Methods: Discrete state Markov models were developed …

Overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening: why modelling is essential

K Ten Haaf, HJ de Koning - J Epidemiol Community Health, 2015 - jech.bmj.com
Screening for diseases is an important part of healthcare, as the detection of disease at an
early stage may improve the chance of successful treatment of the disease. Although high …

[HTML][HTML] Should never-smokers at increased risk for lung cancer be screened?

K Ten Haaf, HJ de Koning - Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction Lung cancer in never-smokers ranks among the 10 most common causes of
death due to cancer worldwide and in the United States. However, it is unknown whether …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in HPV cervical and seroprevalence and associations between oral and genital infection and serum antibodies in NHANES 2003–2012

AF Brouwer, MC Eisenberg, TE Carey, R Meza - BMC infectious diseases, 2015 - Springer
Background HPV infects multiple sites in the epithelium, including the genitals and oral
cavity. The relation between genital and oral infections and serum antibodies can help …