Vendhan Gajalakshmi

TL;DR: This work aimed to quantify suicide mortality in India in 2010 by applying the age-specific and sex-specific proportion of suicide deaths in this survey to the 2010 UN estimates of absolute numbers of deaths in India.

TL;DR: If these associations are mainly causal, smoking in persons between the ages of 30 and 69 years is responsible for about 1 in 20 deaths of women and 1 in 5 deaths of men.

TL;DR: Age-specific mortality from smoking among men in urban and in rural India was assessed, finding that ever smokers are three times as likely as never smokers to report a history of tuberculosis, corresponding to a higher rate of progression of chronic subclinical infection to clinical disease.

TL;DR: Low educational attainment, occupation as a farmer or manual worker and various indicators of poor oral hygiene were associated with significantly increased risk of cancer of the oral cavity in Southern India.

TL;DR: A significant dose‐response relationship for duration and amount of consumption of the 3 habits with the development of the above 3 neoplasms was observed and significant decreases in risks for all 3 cancer sites were observed in subjects who quit smoking even among those who had quit smoking 2–4 years before the interview.