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DNA methylation is associated with lung function in never smokers
... both never and current smokers [19, ...in never smokers for this paper did not reveal novel associations between DNA methyla- tion and environmental exposures (Additional file 4: Table S4 and ...
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Identification of somatic mutations in EGFR/KRAS/ALK-negative lung adenocarcinoma in never-smokers
... Tumor and adjacent normal lung fresh tissues were ob- tained by surgical procedures. Clinical information in- cluding age, sex, smoking history, tumor histology, and tumor stage based on the seventh edition of the ...
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Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and diabetes in adult never-smokers
... in never-smokers. We identified 315 cases of diabetes. In never-smokers, ETS exposure was higher in females, younger participants, and participants with lower educational level, lower ...
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Non-invasive Quantification of Alveolar Morphometry Measurements in Older Never-smokers
... as decreased alveolar sheaths (h) similar to ex-smokers with mild COPD. The primary objective of this thesis was to generate and evaluate 3 He MR morphometry measurements in a group of older ...
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Altered lung biology of healthy never smokers following acute inhalation of E-cigarettes
... healthy never smokers to EC aerosols? Our study design was limited to a small cohort of 10 healthy never smoker volunteers based on ethical concerns of exposing larger numbers of individuals to ...
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RARβ2 hypermethylation is associated with poor recurrence-free survival in never-smokers with adenocarcinoma of the lung
... Results: We retrospectively analyzed the expressions of five proteins using immunohistochemistry in archival formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues from 578 NSCLC patients who had undergone surgical resection from ...
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Risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among never-smokers in Korea
... subjects, never-smokers who had never smoked or smoked less than five packs during their lifetime were enrolled, and patients who had been diagnosed with asthma by a physician and those with a ...
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Proportion and clinical features of never-smokers with non-small cell lung cancer
... that never-smokers were more likely to have a transition mutation rather than a transversion mutation [22, 24], the association between never-smoking status and transition mutations was not ...
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Association between passive smoking and mental distress in adult never-smokers: a cross-sectional study
... adult never-smokers of north-east ...978 never-smokers from Jilin, north-east China, were ...among never-smokers in Jilin province is ...passive smokers at home, but for ...
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Characterization, localization and comparison of c-Kit+ lung cells in never smokers and smokers with and without COPD
... To our knowledge, this is the first study that compares the quantity and localization of c-Kit+ cells in never smokers and smokers with and without COPD. We did not find differences between them. ...
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Clinical biomarkers of pulmonary carcinoid tumors in never smokers via profiling miRNA and target mRNA
... Pulmonary carcinoid tumors (PCTs) are a member of lung neuroendocrine neoplasm family. The incidence of PCTs is relatively low and comprises approximately 1-2% of lung neoplasms [1-3]. PCTs occur frequently in ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5039342.pdf
... Current smokers showed increased odds of CKD associated with higher level of cumulative pack-years of exposure com- pared with never smokers, in agreement with prior studies [26 – ...current ...
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Skin condition and its relationship to systemic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... This study has several limitations, the most important being the difference in age between COPD patients and healthy smokers and never-smokers. Physiological aging could be responsible for changes in ...
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Reference values of fractional excretion of exhaled nitric oxide among non-smokers and current smokers
... 50 mL/s based on a large random population comprising never-smokers, former smokers and current smokers. The second aim of the study was to determine whether age, sex, height and atopy should ...
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Increased IFN-γ-producing Th17/Th1 cells and their association with lung function and current smoking status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... The study population was recruited in Beijing Tongren Hospital and Beijing Daxing Teaching Hospital, Capital Medical University, China. There were 83 stable COPD patients, all current or former smokers, and 31 ...
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Association between smoking and total energy expenditure in a multi-country study
... in smokers than in never smokers (not stastically significant; p ...Second, smokers in our study smoked a fairly small number of cigarettes per day (including within our category of “high” ...
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Imbalance of dendritic cell co-stimulation in COPD
... asymptomatic smokers and patients with COPD (data not ...asymptomatic smokers and never-smokers (Table 2 and Additional file 1: Figure ...asymptomatic smokers (43%) and 1 ...
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Altered deposition of inhaled nanoparticles in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... healthy never-smokers and asymptomatic ...of smokers (any reported tobacco use qualified the subject as a “smoker”) that resulted in a diverse group with a wide range of smoking ...“heavy ...
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Expression pattern of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and TMPRSS2 in the respiratory tract
... healthy never-smokers before smoking E-cigarette; alveolar macrophages of 10 healthy never-smokers before smoking E-cigarette; nasal epithelium of 4 non-smoker females before exposure to third ...
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Lung cancers attributable to environmental tobacco smoke and air pollution in non-smokers in different European countries: a prospective study
... tial confounding from ETS by including cotinine levels in the logistic regression models. The cotinine-adjusted OR was 1.62 (95% CI 0.92–1.43). Among never smokers the association with NO 2 was represented ...
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