Sentences with phrase «heavy alcohol and tobacco»

Previous research has linked social jet leg with obesity and heavy alcohol and tobacco use, the researchers said.

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Risk factors for head and neck cancers include: tobacco use, heavy alcohol consumption, prolonged sun exposure, and certain viruses, including human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein - Barr virus (EBV).

Cancer Prevention Breakthrough Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have provided definitive evidence that oral HPV infection, acquired through oral sex, is a stronger risk factor for oropharyngeal head and neck cancer than is combined heavy use of alcohol and tobacco.

Once caused primarily by heavy tobacco or alcohol use, the majority of new head and neck cancers in the United Stated result from infection with HPV, a common sexually transmitted disease known for causing cervical cancer in women.

Although coffee consumption was inversely associated with diabetes, it was also positively associated with a number of behaviors that are considered unhealthy and are associated with an increased risk of death, such as tobacco smoking, 35 consumption of red meat, 36 and heavy alcohol use.37 Tobacco smoking was the strongest confounder in the multivariate analysis, and the inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality tended to be stronger among persons who had never smoked or were former smokers than among those who were current smokers, suggesting that residual confounding by smoking status, if present, attenuated the inverse associations between coffee drinking and mortality in our study.

As many as 20 percent of cases may be a result of tobacco smoking, and other modifiable risk factors include obesity and heavy alcohol consumption.