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Research from University of Illinois reveals new findings on life sciences
April 28th, 2009
In this recent article published in the journal Tobacco Control, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To estimate the tobacco-attributable costs of diseases separately for smoked and smokeless tobacco use in India. The prevalence-based attributable-risk approach was used to estimate the economic cost of tobacco using healthcare expenditure data from the National Sample Survey, a nationally representative household sample survey conducted in India in 2004." "Four major categories of tobacco-related disease-tuberculosis, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms-were considered. Direct medical costs of treating tobacco related...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-28)
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