Smoking-attributable mortality in Bangladesh: proportional mortality study

• Main Authors: Dewan S Alam (Author), Prabhat Jha (Author), Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige (Author), Peter Kim Streatfield (Author), Louis W Niessen (Author), Muhammad Ashique H Chowdhury (Author), Ali T Siddiquee (Author), Shyfuddin Ahmed (Author), Timothy G Evans (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective To directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. Methods A case-control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural subdistrict. Cases (n = 2213) and controls (n = 261) were men aged 25 to 69 years who had died between 2003 an...