Health effects associated with smokeless tobacco: A systematic review

Thorax

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-443

  Critchley, J A ^a   Unal, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASIA; BETEL NUT; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNET; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHARYNX CANCER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCANDINAVIA; SCREENING; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; TOBACCO; TOOTH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARECA; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCANDINAVIA; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; TOOTH DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037690751     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.58.5.435     Document Type: Review

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