Switching from usual brand cigarettes to a tobacco-heating cigarette or snus: Part 1. Study design and methodology.
Biomarkers
; 20(6-7): 382-90, 2015.
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| ID: mdl-26525849
ABSTRACT
A randomized, multi-center study was conducted to assess potential improvement in health status measures, as well as changes in biomarkers of tobacco exposure and biomarkers of biological effect, in current adult cigarette smokers switched to tobacco-heating cigarettes, snus or ultra-low machine yield tobacco-burning cigarettes (50/group) evaluated over 24 weeks. Study design, conduct and methodology are presented here along with subjects' disposition, characteristics, compliance and safety results. This design and methodology, evaluating generally healthy adult smokers over a relatively short duration, proved feasible. Findings from this randomized study provide generalized knowledge of the risk continuum among various tobacco products (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02061917).
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Projetos de Pesquisa
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Tabaco sem Fumaça
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Abandono do Uso de Tabaco
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Dispositivos para o Abandono do Uso de Tabaco
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Prevenção do Hábito de Fumar
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Biomarkers
Assunto da revista:
BIOQUIMICA
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article