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Hookah smoking: a popular alternative to cigarettes	2011		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Tex Dent J Periodical, Abbrev. Tex.Dent.J. Pub Date Free Form Volume 128 Issue 5 Start Page 441 Other Pages 5 Notes ID: 21834366 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Hookah smoking has recently emerged as a popular alternative to cigarette smoking, particularly among young adults. The perception that hookah smoking is cleaner and less harmful than cigarette smoking appears to be key to its increased use, although this is not the case. Hookah tobacco smoking delivers the powerful addictive drug nicotine, higher levels of carbon monoxide than a cigarette as well as many of the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. There is also significantly increased risk associated with secondhand smoke from hookah smoke. Communal hookah use increases the risk of transmission of infectious diseases. Transition from social to individual hookah use is a critical step toward nicotine dependence as well as progression to cigarette use. Prevention and intervention in patients' tobacco use should include discussion of cigarette alternatives including hookah smoking. Descriptors Smoking/adverse effects, Carbon Monoxide/analysis, Carcinogens/analysis, Humans, Nicotine/analysis, Risk Factors, Smoke/analysis, Tobacco/chemistry, Tobacco Smoke Pollution/adverse effects, Young Adult Links http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/mdl-21834366 Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Rankin,K. V. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Oral self screening among students of Dow University of Health Sciences	2010		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Periodical, Abbrev. J.Coll.Physicians Surg.Pak. Pub Date Free Form Volume 20 Issue 6 Start Page 357 Other Pages 60 Notes ID: 20642961 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of awareness of oral self screening in terms of clinical site and practice towards addiction among the students of health sciences according to low and high fees status. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative study, KAP-study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Dow University Campuses, from November 2008 to March 2009. METHODOLOGY: Twelve hundred and fifty undergraduate and graduate (male/female) medical students, filled oral self assessment questionnaire distributed among medical undergraduate and graduate students of the affiliated institutes of the Dow University of Health Sciences divided into those with low and high fees status according to annual tuition fees (less or more than 40,000 Rs). The students were mainly asked about their practices towards addiction include smoking and chewing tobacco and identification of sites effected. White /red striae, ulceration and/or epithelial erosions were detected under oral self examination for preneoplasia. SPSS-13.0 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: Low and high fees college showed contrasting results for addiction among students of DUHS. Addictions prevailed among high fees students group includes betel nut (7.7%), cigarette (3.2%), sheesha (3.1%), quid (3%), 1.1% gutka and 0.7% cigar (0.7%). Compared to betel nut (5%), quid (3.2%), sheesha and cigar (1.5%) each, cigarette (1.2%) and gutka (0.5%) for low fees group of students at DUHS. Intra oral lesions i.e. (ulcer, striae, erosions) were more frequent on gingiva (1.2%) in the low fees group, compared to 0.2% among high fees students group. Angle of mouth had 0.5% frequency for low and 0.7% for high fees group respectively. Tongue lesions were 1.7% for low and 1.0% for the high fees group students. Buccal mucosa had 1.0% and 1.2% lesions respectively for the low and high fees group. Palate lesions were 1.2% for low and 0.8% for high fees group. Floor of the mouth presented 0.7% lesions for high compared to 0.2% lesions for the low fees group students. CONCLUSION: Gingiva showed slightly higher prevalence of lesions for the low fees group students of DUHS. The patterns of addictions were also different according to the socioeconomic status. Descriptors Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Mouth Diseases/prevention & control, Students, Health Occupations/statistics & numerical data, Adult, Female, Health Behavior, Humans, Male, Pakistan, Social Class, Young Adult Links http://dx.doi.org/06.2010/JCPSP.357360 Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Rasool,Salik, Akram,Sadia, Mirza,Talat, Mohammad,Zehra Abdul, Mohammad,Munira Abdul, Mirza,Amir, Hussain,Imtiaz Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria	2004		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full BMC Public Health Periodical, Abbrev. BMC Public Health Pub Date Free Form Volume 4 Issue Start Page 32 Other Pages 32 Notes ID: 15294023 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract BACKGROUND: Waterpipe smoking is becoming a global public health problem, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). METHODS: We try in this study, which is a cross sectional survey among a representative sample of waterpipe smokers in cafes/restaurants in Aleppo-Syria, to assess the time period for the beginning of this new smoking hype. We recruited 268 waterpipe smokers (161 men, 107 women; mean age +/- standard deviation (SD) 30.1 +/- 10.2, response rate 95.3%). Participants were divided into 4 birth cohorts (1980) and year of initiation of waterpipe smoking and daily cigarette smoking were plotted according to these birth cohorts. RESULTS: Data indicate that unlike initiation of cigarette smoking, which shows a clear age-related pattern, the nineties was the starting point for most of waterpipe smoking implicating this time period for the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria. CONCLUSION: The introduction of new flavored and aromatic waterpipe tobacco (Maassel), and the proliferation of satellite and electronic media during the nineties may have helped spread the new hype all over the Arab World. Descriptors Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Smoking/epidemiology, Social Perception, Adolescent, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Restaurants, Sex Factors, Smoking/psychology, Socioeconomic Factors, Syria/epidemiology, Water Links http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514554/?tool=pubmed Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Rastam,Samer, Ward,Kenneth D., Eissenberg,Thomas, Maziak,Wasim Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
A survey of soil for determination of corrosion factors. On water pipe within Tehran area	1980		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Iranian Journal of Public Health Periodical, Abbrev. IRAN.J.PUBLIC HEALTH Pub Date Free Form 1980/ Volume 9 Issue 4-Jan Start Page 11 Other Pages 19 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors Iran, methodology, nonbiological model, nonhuman, soil Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Razeghi,M., Behnoud,, Jamshidnia, Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Occupational allergic contact dermatitis in water-pipe renovators from diethylenetriamine in an epoxy resin system	1999	Reed, J., Department of Dermatology, Amersham Hospital, Amersham HP7 0JD, United Kingdom	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Contact dermatitis Periodical, Abbrev. Contact Dermatitis Pub Date Free Form 1999/ Volume 41 Issue 5 Start Page 297 Other Pages Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0105-1873 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors diethylenetriamine, epoxy resin, nitrile, adult, article, case report, cleaning, human, male, occupational eczema, patch test, skin allergy, water management Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Reed,J., Shaw,S. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Occupational allergic contact dermatitis in water-pipe renovators from diethylenetriamine in an epoxy resin system	2005		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Contact dermatitis Periodical, Abbrev. Contact Derm. Pub Date Free Form Volume 41 Issue 5 Start Page 297; 83; 11 Other Pages 297; 83; 11 Notes ID: 10554072; ID: i9290215691; ID: i9241593857 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en; en; en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/etiology, Dermatitis, Occupational/etiology, Epoxy Resins/adverse effects, Polyamines/adverse effects, Adult, Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/diagnosis, Dermatitis, Occupational/diagnosis, Hand Dermatoses/diagnosis, Hand Dermatoses/etiology, Humans, Male, Smoking/epidemiology, Smoking, Health Surveys, Tobacco/adverse effects, Smoking/adverse effects, Tobacco/toxicity, Tobacco Links http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/mdl-10554072; http://whqlibdoc.who.int/emro/2006/9789290215691_eng.pdf; http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/who-i9241593857 Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/; WHOLIS; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/; WHOLIS; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Reed,J., Shaw,S., Mohamed,Mostafa K., Loffredo,Christopher A., Israel,Ebenezer, El Setouhy,Maged, WHO Study Group on Tobacco,Product Regulation Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Ecotoxicity testing of heavy metals using methods of sediment microbiology	1993	Reichardt, W., Institut fur Meereskunde, Universitat Kiel, W-2300 Kiel, Germany	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality Periodical, Abbrev. Environ.Toxicol.Water Qual. Pub Date Free Form 1993/ Volume 8 Issue 3 Start Page 299 Other Pages 311 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 1053-4725 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Current measures of microbe-mediated biogeochemical processes in sediments were examined for their potential use as indicators of heavy metal ecotoxicity in both river sediments and bacterial cultures. Assays were carried out with HgCl2, CuSO4, and 3CdSO4.8H2O added to sediment samples and bacterial cell suspensions at concentra,ions ranging from 0.1 to 10 mM and 0.1 Î¼M to 1 mM, respectively. Chemoautotrophic CO2, fixation by Elbe River sediment microbiota was most sensitive to Hg2+ and Cd2+, but not to Cu2+. Among the estimates of heterotrophic productivity, incorporation of leucine into cellular protein showed clearer dose responses than incorporation of thymidine into bacterial DNA. Thymidine incorporation was highly resistant to and even stimulated by metal ions, particularly in starved and anaerobic cultures of a test strain of Vibrio arguillarum. Similar metal ion induced 'overshoot' responses beyond the levels of untreated controls were noted for mineralization of 14C-glucose by V. anguillarum and, in the case of Cd2+, also in sediment. As a less complex measure of microbial respiratory activity, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) showed normal dose responses without stimulatory effects, as long as acterial cell homogenates were assayed. Despite this result, it is concluded that levels of SDH in natural sediment microbiota are inevitably affected by metal-induced processes of selection and enzyme synthesis, and would thus fail to provide an appropriate measure of metal ecotoxicity. The final conclusion is that current parameters of microbial production and activity often reveal dose responses that do not fulfill basic requirements of ecotoxicity testing in metal-polluted sediments. Descriptors cadmium sulfate, carbon 14, carbon dioxide, cell protein, copper sulfate, DNA, glucose, heavy metal, leucine, mercuric chloride, succinate dehydrogenase, thymidine, anaerobic bacterium, article, assay, bacterium culture, cell free system, cell suspension, controlled study, DNA synthesis, dose response, ecotoxicity, enzyme activity, enzyme synthesis, isotope labeling, microbiology, mineralization, nonhuman, pollution, river, sediment, toxicity testing, Vibrio Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Reichardt,W., Heise,S., Piker,L. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Trough versus funnel collectors for measuring throughfall volumes	1991	Inst. of Terrestrial Ecology, Bangor Res. Unit, UCNW, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Journal of environmental quality Periodical, Abbrev. J.Environ.Qual. Pub Date Free Form 1991/ Volume 20 Issue 3 Start Page 518 Other Pages 521 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0047-2425 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Throughfall was collected, at fortnightly intervals, for 1 yr beneath mature stands of Sitka spruce [Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.] and Japanese larch [Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr.] using arrays of troughs and funnels. There was no statistically significant difference between the annual total amounts of throughfall collelcted by the troughs and the funnels. Analysis of the fortnightly data revealed a small bias toward a lower catch by the troughs, although for any given fortnight, quite large differences might occur. Discussion of the results in relation to a recent paper by Kostelnik et al. concludes that there is insufficient evidence on which to reject funnels in favor of troughs for throughfall studies. Descriptors rain, measurement, review, tree Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Reynolds,B., Neal,C. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Oxidase activity in lignifying xylem of a taxonomically diverse range of trees: Identification of a conifer laccase	2000	McDougall, G.J., Unit for Plant Biochemistry, Div. of Biochemistry and Cell Biol., Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Tree physiology Periodical, Abbrev. Tree Physiol. Pub Date Free Form 2000/ Volume 20 Issue 15 Start Page 1039 Other Pages 1047 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0829-318X Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract In a diverse taxonomic range of tree species, including representative species of ancient families of angiosperms (Magnolia x soulangiana Soul.-Bod.) and gymnosperms (Ginkgo biloba L.), oxidase activity was associated with cell walls of developing xylem and was enriched in extracts of cell wall-associated glycoproteins. In all species where oxidase activity was detected histochemically, it was expressed in cell walls of lignifying, differentiating xylem cells and was absent from old wood, cambium and phloem, suggesting that oxidases have a conservative role in lignification of tree xylem. An oxidase from the developing xylem of Picea sitchensis (Bong) Carr. (Sitka spruce) was partially purified by a combination of lectin affinity and immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography. A portion of the total oxidase activity had high affinity for immobilized zinc ions and this feature allowed it to be separated from the bulk of oxidase activity. Two polypeptides that could have been responsible for the bound oxidase activity were enriched by this procedure. The smaller polypeptide of M(r) ~73 kDa yielded an N-terminal amino-acid sequence that was homologous to laccase-like polyphenol oxidases (E.C. 1.10.3.2) from loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.), poplar (Populus euramericana (Dode) Guinier) and Arabidopsis. The larger polypeptide (M(r) ~77 kDa) yielded an N-terminal amino-acid sequence that was homologous with a range of plant subtilisin-like serine proteinases. The roles of oxidase and proteinase activities in developing xylem are discussed. Descriptors Links Book Title Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Richardson,A., Duncan,J., McDougall,G. J. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Young adult smoker risk perceptions of traditional cigarettes and nontraditional tobacco products	2006		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Am J Health Behav Periodical, Abbrev. Am.J.Health Behav. Pub Date Free Form Volume 30 Issue 3 Start Page 302 Other Pages 12 Notes ID: 16712444 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract OBJECTIVE: To explore risk perceptions of traditional and nontraditional tobacco products (NTPs) among young adult smokers. METHODS: Focus groups with African Americans, non-Hispanic whites, and Hispanics. Risk ratings of light, regular, and menthol cigarettes and of NTPs and marijuana and cigarettes were compared. RESULTS: Participants tended to view light cigarettes as safer than regular cigarettes. Shisha and herbal products were rated as safer than traditional cigarettes, but there were differences in ratings by race/ethnicity, related to preferred cigarette variety. CONCLUSIONS: Health communication messages about the use of cigarettes and NTPs should consider risk perceptions about the products and racial/ethnic differences. Descriptors Attitude to Health, Health Behavior, Marijuana Smoking/adverse effects, Smoking/adverse effects, Tobacco/adverse effects, Adult, African Continental Ancestry Group/psychology, European Continental Ancestry Group/psychology, Exercise/psychology, Focus Groups, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Hispanic Americans/psychology, Humans, Marijuana Smoking/epidemiology, Marijuana Smoking/ethnology, Marijuana Smoking/psychology, Risk Assessment, Smoking/epidemiology, Smoking/ethnology, Smoking/psychology, Socioeconomic Factors, Tennessee, Texas Links http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/mdl-16712444 Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Richter,Patricia A., Pederson,Linda L., O'Hegarty,Michelle,M. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors

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