Smoking cessation: Crucial to target women as well as men

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9799, 2011, Pages 1278-1279

  Steliga, Matthew A ^a   Dresler, Carolyn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ROLE; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80053915898     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61035-0     Document Type: Note

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