Tobacco‑related morbidity and nicotine dependence: An experience in an urban slum of Burdwan district, West Bengal, India

نویسندگان
Indranil Saha, . ID 1
Bobby Paul, . ID 2
Kamirul Islam, . ID 3
Tapas Kumar Som, . ID 4

1 Department of Paediatric Medicine, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Bardhaman,

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3 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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چکیده

Tobacco use causes many diseases irrespective of age and sex. More the addiction, more is theoccurrence of morbidity in terms of frequency and severity. This community‑based study wasconducted to find out any relationship between the morbidity associated with tobacco use andnicotine dependence. In an urban slum – Alamganj, district Burdwan, West Bengal, India, fromJanuary to October 2012 among 128 current adult tobacco users using Fagerström test for nicotinedependence (FTND) questionnaire. Tobacco users were maximally suffering from chronic obstructivepulmonary disease (COPD) (27.27%), gastritis (25.45%), and leukoplakia (25.45%). For individualdiseases, the difference in FTND score was significantly high in cases of gastritis, hypertension,and COPDs. All types of morbidity were more common in the group of high nicotine dependence.FTND score can be suitably used to assess nicotine dependence of the tobacco users, who can becounseled accordingly to reduce the tobacco‑related morbidity and mortality.

کلیدواژه‌ها
Fagerström test, Fagerström test for nicotine dependence score, nicotine dependence, tobacco‑related morbidity