Smoking

Current smoking was associated with elevated risk for HF in a dose-response manner, according to a new analysis of the ARIC cohort.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a new study, researchers detected the presence of synthetic cooling agents in U.S.-marketed e-cigarettes, at levels that may exceed current safety thresholds.

Chronic respiratory symptoms in young adulthood were associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in midlife, independent of CV risk factors, smoking and lung function, researchers reported in Chest.

WASHINGTON — Childhood risk factors and the change in combined-risk z score between childhood and adulthood were associated with CV events in midlife, researchers reported.

Cytisinicline resulted in clinically robust and significant improvements in smoking cessation over 6 and 12 weeks of treatment compared with placebo, according to topline results from the ongoing phase 3 ORCA-2 trial.

Researchers found that higher BMI appears to correlate with an increased risk for developing psoriasis, regardless of age, sex, race and smoking status, according to data published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

The FDA proposed prohibiting menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The new product standards are designed to substantially prevent disease and death from combusted product use and to prevent young people from starting to smoke.

The estimated lifetime treatment benefit of smoking cessation was comparable to the use of several pharmaceutical treatments combined, even when the analysis was limited to major CV events, researchers reported.

Addictions to smoking, alcohol and the internet were common in patients with psoriasis, according to a study.

Asthma, history of smoking and chronic sinusitis are risk factors for early COPD in U.S. Hispanic/Latino individuals aged younger than 50 years, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.