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Mental health plays a significant role in overall health, and addressing these concerns is no less important in patients with lung cancer, according to experts.

Community-dwelling older adult smokers for whom annual low-dose CT screening is not recommended had a 10-fold higher risk for lung cancer compared with never smokers, according to study results.

CT measurements may support patient satisfaction along the continuum of COPD phenotypes, and imaging phenotypes could explain a proportion of COPD heterogeneity, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The prevalence of optimal cardiometabolic health among U.S. adults declined in the past 2 decades, and researchers found persistent disparities based on age, sex, education and race.

The re-inhalation of carbon monoxide among smokers while wearing a mask promotes vascular dysfunction and may worsen CV health, according to findings from a single-center study.

Use of menthol cigarettes was associated with increased smoking frequency and nicotine dependence among youths in the U.S., according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in May.

Primary care clinics that implemented an outreach intervention had a greater proportion of patients who converted from current to former smokers than clinics without the intervention, according to findings published in Preventive Medicine.

The FDA issued marketing denial orders to Juul Labs for all of their vaping devices and related products. As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products, and those currently on the U.S. market must be removed.

SAN FRANCISCO — A study of North Philadelphia high school students highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on youth vaping patterns and cessation motivation, researchers reported at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.