Smoking and weight change after new health diagnoses in older adults.
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...medical diagnosis, shown to be a strong independent predictor of cessation in previous work using the HRS dataset.(6)...
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...A major surgery approximately doubled the likelihood of quitting smoking, an effect that was independent of the previously noted effect of major medical diagnosis in multivariate analysis.(6) Only three types of major surgery were analyzed in this study, because information about other types of major surgery is not available in the HRS data....
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...The present paper joins a handful of prospective studies that have investigated health behavior over several years (Falba, 2005; Keenan, 2009; Twardella et al., 2006; van Gool et al., 2007) but provides a more comprehensive look at changes in smoking, exercise, and alcohol consumption among…...
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...The present paper joins a handful of prospective studies that have investigated health behavior over several years (Falba, 2005; Keenan, 2009; Twardella et al., 2006; van Gool et al., 2007) but provides a more comprehensive look at changes in smoking, exercise, and alcohol consumption among individuals newly diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, and lung disease....
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...Individuals diagnosed with a serious health condition were more likely to have quit smoking than those who had not been diagnosed with illness two (Keenan, 2009) and six years later (Falba, 2005)....
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...For two of the studies, this could be because the comparison group was not only free of a cancer diagnosis, but also free from heart disease, diabetes, stroke and lung disease, and these conditions could also contribute to the motivation to change (Keenan, 2009; Newsom et al, 2012a)....
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...Previous research has found evidence for higher rates of smoking cessation following a cancer diagnosis (Falba, 2005; Keenan, 2009; Karlsen et al, 2012; Newsom et al, 2012a)....
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...One analysed data only on smokers and found significantly higher odds of quitting in the 2 years after a cancer diagnosis compared with smokers without any serious diagnosis (Keenan, 2009)....
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...E-mail: rachel.margolis@uwo.ca...
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...Use of selfreported data about health behaviors is common in the research literature, however.(11,14,16,23) Furthermore, changes in question wording and sample size limitations prevented analysis of changes in other important health behaviors such as changes in exercise patterns and in alcohol consumption among heavy drinkers....
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