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KMID : 0616620030090010095
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Journal of Soonchunhyang Medical College
2003 Volume.9 No. 1 p.95 ~ p.101
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The effect of smoking status change on the serum lipid profile levels
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Shin Yong-Ha
Lee Jong-Young
Kim Jin-Seok
Yoo Jay-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the effect of smoking status change on the lipid profile levels and to construct fundamental data on smoking and health promotion.
Methods: 581 male examinees who had taken two times of general health screening tests for aged people from 1996 till 2000 were classified into four groups - continuous non-smoker, continuous smoker, smoking stopper and new smoker and change of serum lipid profile levels between two times of tests among 4 groups were compared.
Results: At the first tests, 344(59.2%) out of 581 examinees were smokers and among them, 30(5.2%) stopped smoking while among initial non-smokers, 28(4.8%) began smoking. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels according to smoking status change were +6.8±27.4 for continuous non-smokers, +11.2±25.0 for continuous smokers, +10.8±28.7 for smoking stoppers, and -7.6±22.5 for new smokers (adjested by alcohol intake and obesity index, p=0.002). Differences of triglyceride levels by smoking status changes were -3.9±78.5 for continuous non-smokers, -13.6±89.6 for continuous smokers,+5.5±65.0 for smoking stoppers, +31.4±73.7 (adjusted by alcohol intake and obesity index, p=0.048)
Conclusions: Although the results of this study should be interpreted in the restricted sense since there had not been effective controls over important confounding variables that might have been related to serum lipid profile levels, like changes of health belief or behavior, For smoking cessation to be more effective strategy for prevention of hyperlipidemia and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, elevation of lipid profile levels and weight gain following smoking cessation should also be prevented through concomitant dietary modification and sufficient exercise.
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KEYWORD
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smoking, lipid, health behavior
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