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It means that citizens of one country travel to another country to have medical procedures performed so term as medical tourism. In general people travel from a country where the medical service is very expensive or where it is not approved. They seek out a country with experienced medical people who can help them...
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This journal article describes a study that used a quasi-experimental design to determine the effect of a nurse-delivered smoking cessation intervention for hospitalized smokers on smoking cessation rates and smoking cessation self-efficacy at six months after enrollment. The study was conducted at a 450-bed major teaching and research tertiary care hospital serving patients from...
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This journal article describes a study conducted to establish to what extent smoking status and its management is recorded in coronary patients’ medical records, and to investigate patients’ motivation to change smoking behavior. In EUROASPIRE, a survey on secondary prevention in 21 hospitals in the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands,...
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This chapter reviews evidence demonstrating that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a risk factor for heart disease in both adults and children. ETS is a mixture of sidestream (SS) and mainstream smoke (MS), and SS is richer in certain carcinogens than MS. Various animal studies on passive smoking have duplicated disease conditions, particularly the...
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This journal article describes a study assessing the percentage of cardiac rehabilitation patients who share a household with regular smokers. One hundred and three consecutive cardiac patients attending a hospital-based outpatient 10-week multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation program in Ireland completed a questionnaire assessing the smoking behavior of cardiac patients and the smoking behavior of others...
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This journal article describes a study that investigated the effects of vital exhaustion (VE) on cardiac autonomic functions in relation to working conditions such as overtime and frequent business trips and to lifestyles such as smoking. Fifty-two male workers, age 30 to 55, of an electric instrument corporation were examined for VE and cardiac...
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This journal article describes a study evaluating the effect of cigarette smoking on sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a large cohort of patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD). The study population consisted of 3,122 patients with previous myocardial infarction or stable angina who participated in the Israeli Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention Trial. Patients were...
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This paper presents a systematic review determining the magnitude of risk reduction achieved by smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The review included nine electronic databases, searched from start of database to April 2003, supplemented by cross-checking references; contact with experts; and large international cohort studies. Prospective cohort studies of patients...
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This journal article describes a study using magnetic resonance imaging tagging in 1,184 asymptomatic participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis to determine their regional myocardial function and to test the hypothesis that traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease, including hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and smoking, are associated with abnormalities of regional left...
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A citywide anti-smoking ordinance in Pueblo , Colo. , resulted in a dramatic decrease in admissions to the local hospitals for heart attacks affecting the city’s residents. Why it’s important: Smoking is a demonstrated cause of heart disease in the general population, and second-hand smoke presents a significant risk to non-smokers, particularly those who...
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