Sentences with phrase «among women smokers»

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Among the 50 trials, 30 were primary prevention trials (general populations, smokers and workers exposed to asbestos, patients with oesophageal dysplasia, male physicians, patients with non-melanoma skin cancer, postmenopausal women, patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis, patients with end stage renal disease, ambulatory elderly women with vitamin D insufficiency, patients with chronic renal failure, older people with femoral neck fractures, patients with diabetes mellitus, elderly women with a low serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration, health professionals, people with a high fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration, or kidney transplant recipients), and 20 were secondary prevention trials (patients with cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, transient ischaemic attack, stroke, angiographically proved coronary atherosclerosis, vascular disease, or aortic valve stenosis).

An association between exposure to light at night and breast cancer was seen, not only in premenopausal women and current and past smokers, but also among those women who worked night shifts.

First, given the higher rate of refusal to participate in the study among women who smoked cigarettes, this trial has limited generalizability to the entire population of smokers and probably users of other substances.

2 Comparison of demographic and other characteristics for smokers and non-smokers among 302 pregnant Australian Indigenous women attending the Mums and Babies program at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service between 1 November 2005 and 31 October 2007

Among Indigenous women who did smoke during pregnancy, most were light smokers but tended to live with a higher number of other household smokers than did women who did not smoke during pregnancy.

Our findings are consistent with those of other researchers who found that, while Indigenous women who smoke during pregnancy have low to medium nicotine dependency, 16,23 the number of smokers in the household is significantly associated with smoking among pregnant Indigenous women.24