Smoking and smokeless tobacco consumption: Possible risk factors for coronary heart disease among young patients attending a tertiary care cardiac hospital in Bangladesh

Public Health

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1331-1338

  Rahman, M A ^a   Zaman, M M ^b  

^a BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b WHO Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

CHD among young patients; CHD in Bangladesh; Smokeless tobacco; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TOBACCO; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIDI SMOKING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 56249122248     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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