Sentence examples for smokers equivalent from inspiring English sources

There was weak (non-significant) evidence that other vascular disease mortality declined more among never and past smokers than among current smokers (equivalent declines over 10 years of 43%, 33% and –6%, respectively; P = 0.01 for heterogeneity, non-significant after adjustment for multiple testing).

Since the net weight of tobacco in a bidi (150 to 240 mg) is about one-fourth that in a cigarette [ 9, 10], in bidi smokers, "cigarette equivalent pack years" were computed.

RRs were expressed relative to never smokers (or near equivalent), if available, or relative to non smokers otherwise.

This is an attempt to compare mentholated and non-mentholated cigarette smokers with an equivalent smoking history.

Female nurses were more often current smokers than the equivalent age groups of the NSW population except in the oldest age category (Fig.  3).

Among 95 and 100-year-old men born in 1885 and 1905, 75%and73%3%, respectively, had been smokers whereas the equivalent numbers for women were 32%and34%4% [ 48].

Using RR estimates for ETS exposure, cigarette equivalents for ETS range from 0.1 to 1.0, based on a range of descriptive and biologically motivated models in active smokers; a cigarette equivalent is 0.2 based on a comparison of log-linear trends in RR with number of cigarettes smoked per day in active smokers and in spouses of nonsmokers.

The fixed cut-off approach leads to over-diagnosis of COPD in older adults given that it does not account for the "normal" age-related decline in respiratory parameters, whereas the LLN cut-off approach is dependent on age-specific reference values derived from spirometry data of "healthy" never-smokers of an equivalent age and gender.

Since S t; d) is dependent upon the individual's smoking history up until age t, S t; d) is equivalent for never smokers and smokers prior to initiation.

The first tests compared all measures by estimating their point-biserial correlations with smoking status (0 = former, 1 = current smoker), which is statistically equivalent to comparing group means for current and former smokers.

The daily mean consumption of 20 cigarettes of active smokers would therefore be equivalent to 0.12-0.20 cigarettes/day of ETS for a passive smoker.