Global burden of disease due to smokeless tobacco consumption in adults: Analysis of data from 113 countries

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Siddiqi, Kamran ^a   Shah, Sarwat ^a   Abbas, Syed Muslim ^b   Vidyasagaran, Aishwarya ^a   Jawad, Mohammed ^c   Dogar, Omara ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b FATIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE;

ADULT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO USE; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 84939442367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0424-2     Document Type: Article

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