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OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the pathobiologic effects of long-term treatment with nicotine of A/J mice susceptible to tobacco-induced lung carcinogenesis.
METHODS
Experimental group of mice received subcutaneous injections of the LD(50) dose of (-)nicotine hydrogen tartrate of 3 mg/kg/day, 5 days per week
OBJECTIVE
To develop a dose-response relationship for the occurrence of permanent alopecia after cranial irradiation and to analyze potential confounding variables that may contribute to this unwanted and often unavoidable complication of treatment.
METHODS
Twenty-six patients were enrolled in this
Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a condition affecting both males and females. We aimed to asses the demographic and clinical features of early-onset AGA among smokers and non smokers and to evaluate if prevalence of AGA was affected by smoking. One thousand (1000) healthy males aged between 20-35
Besides being responsible for a high proportion of those chronic degenerative diseases that are the leading causes of death in the population, tobacco smoking has been associated with skin diseases. Smoke genotoxicants are metabolized in hair follicle cells, where they form DNA adducts and cause DNA
OBJECTIVE
In this study, we measured the extent of ten levels of classified symptoms by 300 (male and female) patients visiting the hair loss clinics of "S" hospitals in Gangbuk and Gangnam between January 2009 and June 2011 by analyzing the patients' chief complaints.
METHODS
The method of
BACKGROUND
The influence of systemic comorbidities on the success of scalp cooling during chemotherapy (CT) is widely unexplored. Comorbidities often require additional medication which itself can occasionally cause alopecia. This study investigates the influence of selected parameters on the
Smoking negatively impacts the health of the skin as it does every organ system. This contribution reviews the effect of cigarette smoking on wound healing, wrinkling, and aging of the skin, skin cancer, psoriasis, and other inflammatory skin diseases, hidradenitis suppurativa, acne, alopecia, lupus
Smoking tobacco is the most preventable cause of morbidity and is responsible for more than three million deaths a year worldwide. In addition to a strong association with a number of systemic diseases, smoking is also associated with many dermatological conditions, including poor wound healing,
Background: Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a chronic cicatricial alopecia with unknown etiology and a worldwide rising incidence.
Objective: The objective of this study
Besides being the single most preventable cause of significant morbidity and an important cause of death in the general population, tobacco smoking has been associated with adverse effects on the skin. Smoke-induced premature skin ageing has attracted the attention of the medical community, while
BACKGROUND
Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) have recently become one of the most abused substances among young population and have caused severe health consequences in our country and worldwide.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to investigate sociodemographic and dermatological findings in SC
OBJECTIVE
To assess the epidemiology of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in a case-control study in greater Athens, Greece.
METHODS
The study comprised 184 patients surgically treated for BPH within one year of its diagnosis (cases) and 246 patients with no symptoms of BPH who were treated in the
A case-control study of prostate cancer (PC) was undertaken in Athens, Greece. Cases were 320 patients with histologically confirmed incident disease, whereas controls were 246 patients without history or symptomatology of benign prostatic hyperplasia, treated in the same hospitals as the cases for
In 1993, the Netherlands Centre for Monitoring of Adverse Reactions to Drugs received 1585 reports of suspected adverse reactions. The most important reports concerned myocardial infarction due to sumatriptan, cholestatic hepatitis due to itraconazole, agranulocytosis due to trazodone and bleeding