Resumen El cáncer de pulmón constituye la primera causa de muerte por cáncer en Chile. A nivel mundial da cuenta de más de 8 millones de fallecimientos anuales, de los nuevos casos de cáncer, más de 6 millones están relacionados con tabaco, constituyendo a el tabaquismo un importante factor de rie...
Resumen En Chile, las mujeres en edad fértil y las embarazadas presentan una alta prevalencia de tabaquismo. El consumo de tabaco durante el embarazo tiene efectos prenatales (por ejemplo, aborto espontáneo, mortinatalidad) y es un factor de riesgo de morbilidad y mortalidad infantil. Todas las mujeres...
ABSTRACT Objective: COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Health care providers should counsel their smoking patients with COPD to quit smoking as the first treatment step. However, in countries with high prevalences of smoking, health care workers may also be smokers. Th...
Abstract Objective: Despite anti-smoking prevention programs, many adolescents start smoking at school age. The main objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with smoking in adolescents living in Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. Methods: A prospective study was condu...
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the level of agreement with effective tobacco control measures recommended by the World Health Organization and to assess the attitudes toward, knowledge of, and beliefs regarding smoking among third-year medical students at University of São Paulo School of Medicine, l...
