Saturday, January 7, 2012
UCLA researchers have identified how a component of an ancient Chinese herbal anti-hangover medicine called dihydromyricetin, isolated from the plant Hovenia, counteracts acute alcohol intoxication and withdrawal symptoms…
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Chinese health officials and commentators have assailed one of the country’s most prestigious academic bodies for recruiting a scientist who specialized in refining low-tar cigarettes — at a time when the government has said it is fighting smoking. Xie Jianping, 52, who works for a research institute of the state-owned China National Tobacco Corporation, has been called the “Killer Academician” and “Tobacco Academician” on Chinese Internet sites after he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an honorary body that also advises the government
Friday, November 25, 2011
Aim To examine the effectiveness of a stage-matched smoking cessation counselling intervention for smokers who had cardiac diseases Methods 1860 Chinese cardiac patients who smoked at least 1 cigarette in the past 7 days and aged 18 or above recruited from cardiac outpatient clinics of Hong Kong hospitals were randomly allocated to an intervention or control group. The intervention group (n = 938) received counselling matched with their stage of readiness to quit by trained-counsellors at baseline, 1-week, and 1-month. The control group (n = 922) received a brief counselling on healthy diet at baseline
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Also tagged 12-month-follow, above-recruited, baseline, china, control-group, effectiveness, hospitals-were, intervention, promote-smoking, smoked-at-least, stages, the-12-month, tobacco
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ABSTRACT Aim To obtain information on drinking behaviour and to examine the associations between frequency of drinking, usual daily drinking quantity and binge drinking behaviour among Chinese residents aged 15–69 years. Design A multi-stage clustering sampling method was used to select a nationally representative sample and data were collected as part of the China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance by face-to-face interview
A nice drink cannot do any harm?
While current cigarettes are made with a filter created from cellulose acetate which absorbs things like nicotine, tar, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Chinese researchers have discovered that nanomaterials from titanium dioxide (TiO2) can be used to reduce the harmful chemicals. For many years, researchers have been looking at adding nanomaterials to current cigarette filters and have tried carbon nanotubes and mesoporous silica
ABSTRACT Aims To examine predictors of quitting behaviours among adult smokers in China, in light of existing knowledge from previous research in four western countries and two southeast Asian countries. Design Face-to-face interviews were carried out with smokers in 2006 using the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey, with follow-up about 16 months later. A stratified multi-stage cluster sampling design was employed.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims To investigate the association of CYP2A6 genetic polymorphisms with smoking-related phenotypes in Chinese smokers. Design Case-only genetic association study
Monday, December 13, 2010
Among a large number of Chinese men presenting with chest pain or EKG changes, sequential subjects undergoing cardiac angiography were evaluated for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) lesions according to their reported recent alcohol intake…
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Also tagged cad, coronary-artery, ekg, heart-disease, large-number, men-presenting, pain-or-ekg, recent-alcohol, reported, sequential-subjects, their-reported, undergoing-cardiac
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Salmon sperm is just not tasty – and that is good news for innovative technology company Nissei Bio, which wants to turn it into cigarette filters. While sushi lovers devour the sperm and sexual organs of fish such as cod, a lack of appetite for salmon “milt” means the northern island of Hokkaido generates thousands of tonnes of waste material rich in DNA each year, says Norio Nishi, Nissei Bio managing director. With the right processing, DNA can be used as a filter to capture dangerous toxins, says Professor Nishi, who is also professor emeritus at Hokkaido University.