Texas A&M researchers questioned 224 cancer patients and found current smokers reported more severe cancer- or treatment-related pain, and more interference with daily life, than people who never smoked. Long-ago quitters reported less pain than current smokers.
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Smoking cessation reduces heart disease risk
Among patients with coronary disease, current smokers were 68 percent more likely than never-smokers and 57 percent more likely than ex-smokers to suffer a major cardiovascular event. A second study found former heavy smokers still faced 44 percent higher heart failure risk 15 years after quitting.
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Births: Preliminary Data for 2009 - CDC report
CDC preliminary data show US births fell 3 percent in 2009 to 4,131,019, with a general fertility rate of 66.7 per 1,000 women. The report breaks results out by age, birth order, race and Hispanic origin, and covers cesareans, preterm births and low birthweight.
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Teenage birth rates decline, but c-sections increase
CDC data show the birth rate for US teens aged 15 to 19 fell 6 percent in 2009 to 39.1 per 1,000, the lowest in seven decades of tracking. Rates also dropped for women in their twenties and thirties, while the cesarean rate rose to a record 32.9 percent.
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Video games impact teen depression and smoking
A Yale survey of 4,028 adolescents found 76.3 percent of boys and 29.2 percent of girls play video games, and 4.9 percent of gamers called their play problematic. The researchers linked problematic gaming to regular smoking, drug use, fighting and depression.
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Kids living in apartments at risk of passive tobacco smoking
Children in multi-unit apartment buildings had 45 percent higher exposure to secondhand smoke than those in detached houses, a Pediatrics study of more than 5,000 children aged 6 to 18 found. Cotinine levels ran highest in children under 12, black children and those below the poverty line.
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Secondhand smoke in apartment buildings makes it hard to breathe easy
Analyzing 2001-2006 NHANES data on 5,000 children aged 6 to 18, researchers reported in Pediatrics that those living in apartments had cotinine levels 45 percent higher than children in detached houses. Overall, 73 percent showed secondhand smoke exposure.
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Depressed smokers less likely to kick the habit
About 41% of callers to the California Smokers' Helpline reported some depression. Two months on, only one in five callers with major depression had stayed smoke-free, against one in three with mild depression. Most quitlines do not screen for depression.
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Imagine eating more, and actually eat less
A study in Science found that people who repeatedly imagined eating a food went on to eat less of it than people who imagined eating it fewer times, imagined a different food, or imagined nothing. They wanted the food less, but did not rate it less palatable.
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Newest weight loss strategy: Meditate before eating your meal
A Carnegie Mellon study led by Carey Morewedge found people ate less of a food after repeatedly imagining eating it; those who imagined 30 M&Ms ate fewer than those who imagined 3. The effect was specific to the food imagined, and Morewedge said it does not transfer to smoking.
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Inhaling Tobacco Smoke Causes Immediate Harm
The Surgeon General's report How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease details how smoke damages every organ and does so immediately. More than 1,000 Americans die from cigarettes each day, half of long-term smokers die prematurely, and no level of exposure is risk-free.
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Miscarriage, stillbirth linked to higher risk of heart attack
An EPIC-Heidelberg study in Heart of 11,518 German women found each stillbirth was associated with a 2.65-fold higher risk of heart attack, still 2.32-fold after adjustment, and more than three miscarriages with a ninefold raised risk before adjustment. Abortion showed no link.
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Passive smoking kills 50,000 Americans each year
WHO researchers estimate secondhand smoke kills about 600,000 people a year worldwide, most from heart disease. A Circulation report puts U.S. deaths from passive smoking near 50,000 a year, and a Tobacco Control study attributes more than 22,000 Chinese lung cancer deaths in 2002 to it.
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Maternal smoking, passive smoking boost risk of neural tube defects
A Texas study of 1,041 neural tube defect cases and 5,862 control births found mothers exposed only to secondhand smoke were 70% more likely to have an affected baby. The authors note that evidence for an independent effect of cigarette smoke on these defects has been mixed.
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Early menarche linked to higher risk of breast cancer
A case-control study of 115 breast cancer patients and 230 matched controls in northern Tanzania found later menarche linked to 26 percent lower risk in premenopausal women, while a high BMI at age 20 was linked to 31 percent higher risk. Longer lactation also tracked lower risk.
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Passive smoking causes more heart disease deaths than lung cancer deaths
WHO researchers estimate secondhand smoke kills about 600,000 people a year worldwide, including 379,000 from heart disease and 21,400 from lung cancer. Two-thirds of those deaths occur in Africa and south Asia, and about 165,000 are children.
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Exercise capacity predicts mortality in type 2 diabetes patients
Among 2,867 veterans with type 2 diabetes aged 50 to 87 followed nearly eight years, each 1-MET rise in exercise capacity was linked to 23 percent lower death risk in those aged 50 to 65 and 16 percent in those over 65. A separate JAMA study favours aerobic plus resistance training.
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Aerobic, resistance training together help diabetics
In the HART-D trial of 262 sedentary adults with type 2 diabetes, only those doing both aerobic exercise and resistance training over nine months saw a significant change in HbA1c. Neither form of training on its own produced one.
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