Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Current cigarette smoking and risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

Current cigarette smoking and risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Current cigarette smoking and risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. D Scholes , J R Daling and A S Stergachis Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash. 98101. OBJECTIVES. Further information is needed on modifiable factors associated with the occurrence of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Cigarette smoking has been implicated as a risk factor for PID sequelae, but the association between smoking and PID has yet to be fully examined. METHODS. We conducted a population-based case-control study to evaluate smoking as a risk factor for acute PID. The case patients (n = 131) were women health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees between the ages of 18 and 40 years who were treated for a first episode of PID. The control patients (n = 294) were randomly selected from the HMO enrollment files. RESULTS. Relative to never smokers, current smokers were at increased risk of PID. Women who smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day had a higher risk than did those who smoked less. Available data indicate that smoking status is not serving as a marker for uncontrolled confounding by lifestyle factors. CONCLUSIONS. Our study results suggest that smoking represents a modifiable risk factor for acute PID. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Current cigarette smoking and risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

American Journal of Public Health , Volume 82 (10): 1352 – Oct 1, 1992

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-public-health-association/current-cigarette-smoking-and-risk-of-acute-pelvic-inflammatory-lF50kGEG0s

References (5)

Publisher
American Public Health Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the American Public Health Association
ISSN
0090-0036
eISSN
1541-0048
DOI
10.2105/AJPH.82.10.1352
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Current cigarette smoking and risk of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. D Scholes , J R Daling and A S Stergachis Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash. 98101. OBJECTIVES. Further information is needed on modifiable factors associated with the occurrence of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Cigarette smoking has been implicated as a risk factor for PID sequelae, but the association between smoking and PID has yet to be fully examined. METHODS. We conducted a population-based case-control study to evaluate smoking as a risk factor for acute PID. The case patients (n = 131) were women health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees between the ages of 18 and 40 years who were treated for a first episode of PID. The control patients (n = 294) were randomly selected from the HMO enrollment files. RESULTS. Relative to never smokers, current smokers were at increased risk of PID. Women who smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day had a higher risk than did those who smoked less. Available data indicate that smoking status is not serving as a marker for uncontrolled confounding by lifestyle factors. CONCLUSIONS. Our study results suggest that smoking represents a modifiable risk factor for acute PID.

Journal

American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association

Published: Oct 1, 1992

There are no references for this article.