Active tobacco smoking was a significant predictor of impaired LV and RV systolic function, with regard to EF (: 2.21 0.82%, 2.06 0.87%, P = 0.007, 0.019 respectively) as well as LV myocardial peak global longitudinal strain (GLS), peak global radial strain (GRS) and peak global circumferential strain (GCS) (: 0.86 0.30%, 2.52 0.99%, 1.05 0.32%, P = 0.004, 0.011, 0.001 respectively), both in univariate linear regression analyses and after further adjustment for matching parameters and possible confounders
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Yoon Heung-hee, a professor in addiction-related counseling at Namseoul University, said teenage drug use can still be prevented early because long-term abuse rates among adolescents remain relatively low
It seems appropriate therefore to recommend that dentists, GPs and other relevant health professionals should routinely assess and record smokeless tobacco use in patients belonging to relatively high prevalence groups, that they ensure that smokeless tobacco users know the potential health risks (as well as the health risks of smoking) and that they advise them to stop and keep a record of the outcome