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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Mortality attributable to smoking in Vietnamese men in 2008
Preventive Medicine, Volume 57, No. 3, Year 2013
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Objective: Smoking prevalence among Vietnamese men is among the highest in the world. Our aim was to provide estimates of tobacco attributable mortality to support tobacco control policies. Method: We used the Peto-Lopez method using lung cancer mortality to derive a Smoking Impact Ratio (SIR) as a marker of cumulative exposure to smoking. SIRs were applied to relative risks from the Cancer Prevention Study, Phase II. Prevalence-based and hybrid methods, using the SIR for cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and smoking prevalence for all other outcomes, were used in sensitivity analyses. Results: When lung cancer was used to measure cumulative smoking exposure, 28% (95% uncertainty interval 24-31%) of all adult male deaths (>. 35. years) in Vietnam in 2008 were attributable to smoking. Lower estimates resulted from prevalence-based methods [24% (95% uncertainty interval 21-26%)] with the hybrid method yielding intermediate estimates [26% (95% uncertainty interval 23-28%)]. Conclusion: Despite uncertainty in these estimates of attributable mortality, tobacco smoking is already a major risk factor for death in Vietnamese men. Given the high current prevalence of smoking, this has important implications not only for preventing the uptake of tobacco but also for immediate action to adopt and enforce stronger tobacco control measures. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pacella, Rosana
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Vos, Theo
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
United States, Seattle
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Barendregt, Jan J.M.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Linh, Bui Ngoc
Viet Nam, Hanoi
Hanoi School of Public Health
Huong, Nguyen Thanh
Viet Nam, Hanoi
Hanoi School of Public Health
Higashi, Hideki
United States, Seattle
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Carnahan, Emily
United States, Seattle
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Lopez, Alan D.
Australia, Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Statistics
Citations: 14
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.05.016
ISSN:
10960260
Research Areas
Cancer
Substance Abuse
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Participants Gender
Male