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Natural Killer Activity and Its Changes among Participants in a Smoking Cessation Intervention Program. A Prospective Pilot Study of 6 Months' Duration
- Source :
- Journal of Epidemiology. 11:238-242
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Japan Epidemiological Association, 2001.
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Abstract
- We examined the effect of smoking cessation on natural killer (NK) activity of peripheral blood lymphocytes in terms of a prospective study of 27 Japanese subjects who participated in a smoking cessation intervention program. This program was delivered by means of groupcounseling offering 7 sessions of about 2 hours over 6 months to help smokers to discontinue the habit. Thirteen subjects ceased smoking (quitters), while 14 continued to smoke (cigarette smokers). NK activity before the intervention was correlated positively with age (correlation coefficient=0.46, P
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
medicine.medical_treatment
Pilot Projects
Subgroup analysis
Urine
chemistry.chemical_compound
Internal medicine
Intervention (counseling)
Humans
Medicine
Prospective Studies
Cotinine
Prospective cohort study
Aged
business.industry
Smoking
Killer activity
Smoking cessation intervention
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Killer Cells, Natural
chemistry
Physical therapy
Regression Analysis
Smoking cessation
Female
Smoking Cessation
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09175040
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Epidemiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....466c93d16b2000d02535204f08aac4e2