chinese/nicotine

BACKGROUND: Studies of smoking cessation intervention among hospitalized patients with CVD and pulmonary disease produced varying cessation rates, ranging from 20 to 51% among patients with pulmonary disease, from 22 to 71% among survivors of coronary disease and as much as 80% among lung cancer

Tobacco-smoking causes lung function decline with airflow obstruction, which may be accelerated in persistent smokers.This would eventually lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Hong Kong and globally. Lung function decline is gradual and

1. Background Asthma constitutes a significant health problem both in Hong Kong and worldwide (1). Different risk factors for asthma have been identified. These include atopy (2), family history of asthma, exposure to indoor aeroallergens (3) air pollution (4) and exposure to environmental tobacco

This is a survey about health-related behaviors, risks, attitudes and acculturation. It includes questions about use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; safety and violence; diet and physical activity; and youth programs and resources in your community. Your answers are completely anonymous, and

China is a particularly critical country for global tobacco control. It has the world's largest number of smokers, approximately 350 million, and the immense market afforded by the 60 percent of men who smoke and the 95 percent of women who do not smoke represents a prize target for the

All subjects provided written informed consent after a full explanation of the protocol design.

Study design The proposed project has 4 phases: (1) Training of SC ambassadors (SCAs) for the SC promotion; (2) SC promotion sessions to deliver the medication counselling and NRT sampling (experimental group), or the advice to use NRT only (control group); (3) Follow-up of the recruited smokers;

Trial design The study aims at motivating smokers to have quit attempt using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) sampling. We will firstly train nurses and university undergraduate students as outreach smoking cessation ambassadors. These trained ambassadors will proactively approach the smokers at

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), or median neuropathy at the wrist, is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist, leading to paresthesia, numbness and muscle weakness in the hand. It's the most common neuro-compressive disease. With the development of the modern life, the

Smoking prevalence remains high in subgroups of Asian American men, particularly among those with low English proficiency (LEP) and immigrants from cultures where smoking prevalence is high, including Chinese and Vietnamese. The 2011-12 California Health Interview Survey estimates that nearly half

The Asian American population is the fast-growing racial group during 2000 and 2010. Smoking prevalence among that Vietnamese (43%), Chinese (32%), and Korean (27%) men who spoke limited English are disproportionately higher than that of men of all races combined (17%). Thus, some Asian groups,

We propose to add a collection of buccal cells to a school-based cohort of 7th graders in Wuhan, a large industrial city in China. The cohort study is being conducted by the Wuhan Public Health and Anti-Epidemic Station (Li Yan MD, director and principal investigator). The cohort study is designed

We propose to clinically examine self-reported Parkinson s disease (PD) patients from the well established Shanghai Women s Health Study (SWHS) and thus initiate a long-term PD research in this unique Chinese women cohort. The SWHS cohort was established in late 1990s by Dr. Wei Zheng from