Tobacco Smoking and Mortality in Asia: A Pooled Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding birth cohort-specific tobacco smoking patterns and their association with total and cause-specific mortality is important for projecting future deaths due to tobacco smoking across Asian populations.

Objectives

To assess secular trends of tobacco smoking by countries or regions and birth cohorts and evaluate the consequent mortality in Asian populations.

Design, setting, and participants

This pooled meta-analysis was based on individual participant data from 20 prospective cohort studies participating in the Asia Cohort Consortium. Between September 1, 2017, and March 31, 2018, a total of 1 002 258 Asian individuals 35 years or older were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression analysis and random-effects meta-analysis. The pooled r

SUBMITTER: Yang JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450311 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature