Smoking & Tobacco

Effectiveness of a chat-bot for the adult population to quit smoking: protocol of a pragmatic clinical trial in primary care (Dejal@).

BACKGROUND: The wide scale and severity of consequences of tobacco use, benefits derived from cessation, low rates of intervention by healthcare professionals, and new opportunities stemming from novel communications technologies are the main factors motivating this project. Thus, the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of an intervention that helps people cease smoking and increa...

Statistical and machine learning methodology for abdominal aortic aneurysm prediction from ultrasound screenings.

A method of analysis of a database of patients (n = 10 329) screened for an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is presented. Self-reported height, weight, age, gender, ethnicity, and parameters "Heart Problems," "Hypertension," "High Cholesterol," "Diabetes Mellitus," "Smoker Past 2 Years," "Ever Smoked?," "Family History AAA," and "Family History Brain Aneurysm" were provided. Incidence of a AAA (de...

Predictors of adherence to nicotine replacement therapy: Machine learning evidence that perceived need predicts medication use.

BACKGROUND: Nonadherence to smoking cessation medication is a frequent problem. Identifying pre-quit predictors of nonadherence may help explain nonad...

Hypervitaminosis D without toxicity.

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent and there are an increasing number of reports of vitamin D toxicity, mostly related to the misuse of over-the...

Validation of oxidative stress assay for schizophrenia.

Accumulating evidence implicates oxidative stress in a range of diseases, yet no objective measurement has emerged that characterizes the global natur...

Assessing data availability and quality within an electronic health record system through external validation against an external clinical data source.

BACKGROUND: Approximately 20% of deaths in the US each year are attributable to smoking, yet current practices in the recording of this health risk in...

Identifying Key Target Audiences for Public Health Campaigns: Leveraging Machine Learning in the Case of Hookah Tobacco Smoking.

BACKGROUND: Hookah tobacco smoking (HTS) is a particularly important issue for public health professionals to address owing to its prevalence and dele...

Detection of smoking status from retinal images; a Convolutional Neural Network study.

Cardiovascular diseases are directly linked to smoking habits, which has both physiological and anatomical effects on the systemic and retinal circula...

Leveraging Electronic Dental Record Data to Classify Patients Based on Their Smoking Intensity.

BACKGROUND: Smoking is an established risk factor for oral diseases and, therefore, dental clinicians routinely assess and record their patients' deta...

A Study on Metabolic, Nutritional and Biochemical Profile of Tobacco Users With and Without Oral Precancer Lesions.

INTRODUCTION: The tobacco use and the dietary intake/levels of vitamin C and E, and the trace elements, iron, copper, zinc, and selenium are interrela...

Natural language processing of lifestyle modification documentation.

Lifestyle modification, including diet, exercise, and tobacco cessation, is the first-line treatment of many disorders including hypertension, obesity...

Physical characteristics not psychological state or trait characteristics predict motion during resting state fMRI.

Head motion (HM) during fMRI acquisition can significantly affect measures of brain activity or connectivity even after correction with preprocessing ...

Blood Biochemistry Analysis to Detect Smoking Status and Quantify Accelerated Aging in Smokers.

There is an association between smoking and cancer, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. However, currently, there are no affordable and in...

A Combined Ultrafiltration/Diafiltration Step Facilitates the Purification of Cyanovirin-N From Transgenic Tobacco Extracts.

The production of biopharmaceutical proteins in plants offers many advantages over traditional expression platforms, including improved safety, greate...

Performance of machine-learning algorithms to pattern recognition and classification of hearing impairment in Brazilian farmers exposed to pesticide and/or cigarette smoke.

The use of pesticides has been increasing in agriculture, leading to a public health problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate ototoxic effects i...

Using Phytochemicals to Investigate the Activation of Nicotine Detoxification via Upregulation of CYP2A6 in Animal Models Exposed Tobacco Smoke Condensate by Intratracheal Instillation.

This study examined the efficacy of standardized L. root extract (SSCR) containing chlorogenic acid on detoxifying nicotine from tobacco smoke conden...

Comparison of TSNAs concentration in saliva according to type of tobacco smoked.

OBJECTIVE: To compare tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) measured in saliva according to different types of tobacco smoked in a sample of smokers o...

Synchronization-induced spike termination in networks of bistable neurons.

We observe and study a self-organized phenomenon whereby the activity in a network of spiking neurons spontaneously terminates. We consider different ...

Rapid Rule Out of Culture-Negative Bloodstream Infections by Use of a Novel Approach to Universal Detection of Bacteria and Fungi.

BACKGROUND: Currently it can take up to 5 days to rule out bloodstream infection. With the low yield of blood cultures (approximately 10%), a signific...

Multiple Human-Behaviour Indicators for Predicting Lung Cancer Mortality with Support Vector Machine.

Lung cancer is still one of the most common causes of death around the world, while there is overwhelming evidence that the environment and lifestyle ...