Tobacco use and cardiovascular disease: A knowledge, attitude and practice study in rural Kerala

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 271-276

  Tiwari, Rajnarayan ^a   Deb, Pankaj ^a   Debbarma, Aghore ^a   Chaudhuri, Rupali ^a   Chakraborty, Amita ^a   Lepcha, Mickyla ^a   Chakraborti, Gita ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Awareness; Cardiac problems; Health knowledge; Humans; Practice; Rural Kerala; Smoking adverse effects; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PUBLICATION; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 33746693701     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.26601     Document Type: Article

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