Tobacco use or body mass - do they predict tuberculosis mortality in Mumbai, India? results from a population-based cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Pednekar, Mangesh S ^a   Hakama, Matti ^b   Gupta, Prakash C ^a  

^a Healis   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; TUBERCULOSIS; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TUBERCULOSIS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84864410876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039443     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. World Health Organization (2011) Global tuberculosis control: WHO report 2011. Available:http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2011/gtbr11_full.pdf. Accessed on 2011 Oct 20.
2. Lin HH, Ezzati M, Murray M, (2007) Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS medicine 4: e20.
3. Slama K, Chiang CY, Enarson DA, Hassmiller K, Fanning A, et al. (2007) Tobacco and tuberculosis: a qualitative systematic review and metaanalysis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 11: 1049-1061.
4. Maurya V, Vijayan VK, Shah A, (2002) Smoking and tuberculosis: an association overlooked. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 6: 942-951.
5. Pednekar MS, Gupta PC, (2007) Prospective study of smoking and tuberculosis in India. Prev Med 44: 496-498.
6. Gupta PC, Pednekar MS, Parkin DM, Sankaranarayanan R, (2005) Tobacco associated mortality in Mumbai (Bombay) India. Results of the Bombay cohort study. Int J Epidemiol 34: 1395-1402.
7. Pednekar MS, Sansone G, Gupta PC, (2012) Association of alcohol, alcohol and tobacco with mortality: findings from a prospective cohort study in Mumbai (Bombay), India. Alcohol 46: 139-146.
8. Pednekar MS, Hakama M, Hebert JR, Gupta PC, (2008) Association of body mass index with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: findings from a prospective cohort study in Mumbai (Bombay), India. Int J Epidemiol 37: 524-535.
9. Ezzati M, Lopez AD, Rodgers A, Murray CJL, (2004) Comparative Quantification of Health Risks. Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors. 2004, Volume 2, World Health Organization, Geneva.
10. Murray CJL, Lopez AD, (1999) On the comparable quantification of health risks: lesson from global burden of disease. Epidemiology 10: 594-605.
11. Pednekar MS, Gupta PC, Hebert JR, Hakama M, (2008) Joint effect of tobacco use and body mass on all-cause mortality in Mumbai, India: Results from a population-based cohort study. Am J Epidemiol 167: 330-340.
12. Pednekar MS, Hébert JR, Gupta PC, (2009) Tobacco use, body mass and cancer mortality in Mumbai Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiol 33: 424-430.
13. Gupta PC, (1996) Survey of sociodemographic characteristics of tobacco use among 99,598 individuals in Bombay, India using handheld computers. Tob Control 5: 114-120.
14. Pednekar MS, (2008) The impact of Tobacco Use and/or Body Composition on Adult Mortality in Urban Developing Country Population. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1340, Tampere University Press, Tampere 2008. Available:http://acta.uta.fi/pdf/978-951-44-7431-6.pdf. Accessed on 2011 Oct 20.
15. Pednekar MS, Gupta PC, Shukla HC, Hebert JR, (2006) Association between tobacco use and body mass index in urban Indian population: implications for public health in India. BMC Public Health 6: e70.
16. Shukla HC, Gupta PC, Mehta HC, Hebert JR, (2002) Descriptive epidemiology of body mass index of an urban adult population in western India. J Epidemiol Community Health 56: 876-880.
17. Cox DR, (1972) Regression models and life-tables. J R Stat Soc (B) 34: 187-202.
18. Rockhill B, Newman B, Weinberg C, (1998) Use and misuse of population attributable fractions. Am J Public Health 88: 15-19.
19. American Thoracis Society and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2000) Targeted tuberculin testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 49: 1-51.
20. Yew WW, Leung CC, (2006) Prognostic significance of early weight gain in underweight patients with tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 174: 236-237.
21. Leung CC, Lam TH, Chan WM, Yew WW, Ho KS, et al. (2007) Lower risk of tuberculosis in obesity. Arch Intern Med 167: 1297-1304.
22. Reddy KS, Gupta PC, (2004) Report on tobacco control in India. New Delhi: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
23. Sorensen G, Gupta PC, Pednekar MS, (2005) Social disparities in tobacco use in Mumbai, India: the roles of occupation, education, and gender. Am J Public Health 95: 1003-1008.
24. Jha P, (2009) Avoidable global cancer deaths and total deaths from smoking. Nat Rev Cancer 9: 655-564.
25. Jha P, Jacob B, Gajalakshmi V, Gupta PC, Dhingra N, et al. (2008) A nationally representative case-control study of smoking and death in India. N Engl J Med 358: 1137-1147.
26. Bates MN, Khalakdina A, Pai M, Chang L, Lessa F, et al. (2007) Risk of tuberculosis from exposure to tobacco smoke: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med 167: 335-342.
27. Corwin EJ, Klein LC, Rickelman K, (2002) Predictors of fatigue in healthy young adults: moderating effects of cigarette smoking and gender. Biol Res Nurs 3: 222-233.
28. Moszczynski P, Zabinski Z, Moszczynski P Jr, Rutowski J, Slowinski S, et al. (2001) Immunological findings in cigarette smokers. Toxicol Lett 118: 21-27.
29. Bamia C, Trichopoulou A, Lenas D, Trichopoulos D, (2004) Tobacco smoking in relation to body fat mass and distribution in a general population sample. Int J Obes Rel Metabol Disord: J Int Assoc Study Obes 28: 1091-1096.
30. Keusch GT, (2003) The history of nutrition: malnutrition, infection and immunity. J Nutr 133: 336S-340S.
31. Efroymson D, Ahmed S, Townsend J, Alam SM, Dey AR, et al. (2001) Hungry for tobacco: an analysis of the economic impact of tobacco consumption on the poor in Bangladesh.[see comment]. Tobacco Control 10: 212-217.
32. Marti B, Tuomilehto J, Korhonen HJ, Kartovaara L, Vartiainen E, et al. (1989) Smoking and leanness: evidence for change in Finland. BMJ 298: 1287-1290.
33. India: Death Reporting, Medical Cetification of Death, and Mortality Studies. Available:http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/2007_Paper_3._India_Death_Reg_25_Feb_07.pdf. Accessed on 2012 Jan14.
34. Allison DB, Faith MS, Heo M, Townsend-Butterworth D, Williamson DF, (1999) Meta-analysis of the effect of excluding early deaths on the estimated relationship between body mass index and mortality. Obes Res 7: 342-354.
35. Allison DB, Heo M, Flanders DW, Faith MS, Carpenter KM, et al. (1999) Simulation study of the effects of excluding early deaths on risk factor-mortality analyses in the presence of confounding due to occult disease: the example of body mass index. Ann Epidemiol 9: 132-142.
36. Stevens J, Juhaeri, Cai J, (2001) Changes in body mass index prior to baseline among participants who are ill or who die during the early years of follow-up. Am J Epidemiol 153: 946-953.