Effects of bidi smoking on all-cause mortality and cardiorespiratory outcomes in men from south Asia: an observational community-based substudy of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (PURE)

• Main Authors: Dr. MyLinh Duong, MBBS (Author), Sumathy Rangarajan, MSc (Author), Xiaohe Zhang, MSc (Author), Prof. Kieran Killian, PhD (Author), Prem Mony, MD (Author), Sumathi Swaminathan, PhD (Author), Ankalmadagu Venkatsubbareddy Bharathi, PhD (Author), Prof. Sanjeev Nair, MD (Author), Prof. Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, MD (Author), Indu Mohan, MD (Author), Rajeev Gupta, PhD (Author), Deepa Mohan, PhD (Author), Shanthi Rani, PhD (Author), Prof. Viswanathan Mohan, MD (Author), Romaina Iqbal, PhD (Author), Khawar Kazmi, MD (Author), Prof. Omar Rahman, DSc (Author), Rita Yusuf, PhD (Author), Lakshmi Venkata Maha Pinnaka, MD (Author), Prof. Rajesh Kumar, MD (Author), Prof. Paul O'Byrne, MB (Author), Prof. Salim Yusuf, DPhil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Bidis are minimally regulated, inexpensive, hand-rolled tobacco products smoked in south Asia. We examined the effects of bidi smoking on baseline respiratory impairment, and prospectively collected data for all-cause mortality and cardiorespiratory events in men from this region. Method...