Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10002, 2015, Pages 1447-1456

  Chen, Zhengming ^a   Peto, Richard ^a   Zhou, Maigeng ^b   Iona, Andri ^a   Smith, Margaret ^a   Yang, Ling ^a   Guo, Yu ^c   Chen, Yiping ^a   Bian, Zheng ^c   Lancaster, Garry ^a   Sherliker, Paul ^a   Pang, Shutao ^d   Wang, Hao ^e   Su, Hua ^d   Wu, Ming ^d   Wu, Xianping ^f   Chen, Junshi ^g   Collins, Rory ^a   Li, Liming ^c,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d Qingdao CDC ^*  (China)

^e Zhejiang CDC   (China)

^f Sichuan CDC   (China)

^g CHINA NATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

ⁱ PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; URBAN AREA; YOUNG ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84944039513     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00340-2     Document Type: Article

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