Background. Fires cause 1% of the global burden of disease. Fire (includes explosion) disasters
have immense health, social, and environmental costs. We will provide initial estimates …

Toassess the clinical significance of asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis, we evaluated the
relationship between radiographic evidence of pleural fibrosis and spirometric values in 1,211 …

… This 0.3178 is the ratio of hepatitis C–related deaths (n = 8000) (Alter 1 suggested 8000-10
000, and we selected 8000) to liver disease–related deaths (n = 25 175). These total days of …

Objectives—Assess injury death relative risks (RR), dose-response, and attributable fractions
for current cigarette smokers (smokers) in a recent representative sample of the United …

… (n = 8431), who didn’t have information on interview quarter (n = 559), who were unsure
about their smoking status (n = 616) and who didn’t have any information on death codes (n = 18…

Background.Injury and tobacco effects represent one-quarter of the global burden of disease.
Understanding the causes of injury and the effects of smoking may help reduce those …

This meta-analysis discusses the consistency, strength, dose-response, independence, and
generalizability of published cohort data on accident death relative risks in smokers. To …

Background.Smokers have excesses of injuries. Randomized, controlled trials (RCT) could
assess whether cigarette smoking (smoking) causes (and smoking cessation (cessation) …

The costs of smoking are immense, diverse, sometimes controversial, and increasingly
important as the number of smokers exceeds 1.1 billion and the toll from smoking rises toward …

Objective: To determine if selective newborn cord blood testing (NCBT) could contain costs
without increasing morbidity of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Design: A national …