Do smoking habits differ between women and men in contemporary Western populations? evidence from half a million people in the uk biobank study

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Peters, Sanne A E ^a   Huxley, Rachel R ^b   Woodward, Mark ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; UNITED KINGDOM; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HABIT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MIDDLE AGED; TOBACCO;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84920733218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005663     Document Type: Article

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