Quit smoking improves gastroesophageal reflux symptoms and quality of life

Nakajima, Kousuke; Nagahara, Akihito; Kurosawa, Akihiko; Seyama, Kuniaki; Asaoka, Daisuke; Osada, Taro; Hojo, Mariko; Watanabe, Sumio

doi:10.4236/health.2011.311114

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“…One explanation for this might be that smokers in the ICP group may have quit smoking because of dyspepsia which is more common among smokers than non-smokers. Quitting smoking alleviates gastroesophageal reflux symptoms [21]. Our recent study among the same population showed that women in the ICP group had used antacid drugs more often than the controls [16].…”

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Health behavior after intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy

Turunen¹,

Helander²,

Mattila³

et al. 2013

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Background: Pregnancy is an opportunity to adopt favorable health behaviors. We studied whether intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) promotes favorable health behavior in later life. Design: A prospective controlled cohort study. The method was a questionnaire survey in 2010 among 575 women with ICP and 1374 controls, all having delivered between the years 1969 and 1988 in Tampere University Hospital in Finland. Questionnaires were sent to 544 ICP patients and 1235 controls. Responses were received from 1178 (response rate 66.2%). The main outcome measures concerning recent or current health behavior were smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, body mass index (BMI) and special diet. Results: Current smoking was less common in the ICP group than among controls (10.5% vs 15.7%, p = 0.017). Assessed by smoking pack years there was a similar difference: in the ICP group 11.7% of women had at least 10 smoking pack years compared to 18.0% of the controls (p = 0.006). Recent alcohol consumption did not separate the two groups. The groups did not differ as to reported physical activity assessed in MET units. Fewer ICP women had had BMIs of 30 or more during pregnancy compared with controls (18.8% vs 25.1%, p = 0.023). In other points of life the BMI differences were not statistically significant. Weight-loss diet and gallbladder diet were more common in the ICP group (6.3% vs 3.6%, p = 0.044, and 3.0% vs 1.3%, p = 0.038). Conclusions: Having developed ICP two to four decades earlier seemed to constitute an effective intervention for smoking habits but not for other aspects of health behavior.

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