Even more illness caused by smoking than previously estimated
Menée notamment à partir des données du bureau du recensement des Etats-Unis et des données d'une enquête de santé réalisée entre 2006 et 2012, cette étude estime la proportion d'adultes, âgés de 35 ans ou plus, ayant eu en 2009 une maladie grave attribuable au tabac
Another way to enumerate the damage caused by smoking is to calculate how many persons are afflicted with serious smoking-attributable morbidities. The previous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate—from the year 2000—put that number at 8.6 million Americans, about 60% of whom had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); the 2014 Report of the Surgeon General1 estimated that it now might be twice as large. In this issue, Rostron et al2 present new morbidity estimates derived from 2 existing national data sets—the National Health Interview Survey (for a general estimate of all smoking-related diseases) and the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) (to account for underreporting of COPD).
JAMA Internal Medicine , commentaire en libre accès, 2013