TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of smoking on HIV infection among HIV-infected Japanese men
AU - Oka, Fukuko
AU - Naito, Toshio
AU - Oike, Miki
AU - Saita, Mizue
AU - Inui, Akihiro
AU - Uehara, Yuki
AU - Mitsuhashi, Kazunori
AU - Isonuma, Hiroshi
AU - Hisaoka, Teruhiko
AU - Shimbo, Takuro
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We thank a Grant-in-Aide (S1201013) from MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2012–2017.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - We performed a cross-sectional study that included 100 HIV-infected Japanese men without hemophilia to examine the influence of smoking on HIV infection. History of smoking was obtained using a questionnaire. The percentage of current smokers was 40 % and was the highest (50 %) among men in their forties. The mean Brinkman index (BI, number of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by years of smoking) was 450. The percentage of patients with a BI ≥600 was significantly higher in patients with an AIDS-defining event than in those without an AIDS-defining event. A BI ≥600 was associated with an AIDS-defining event. Reducing smoking appears to be critical to enhancing disease management efforts in Japanese men with HIV.
AB - We performed a cross-sectional study that included 100 HIV-infected Japanese men without hemophilia to examine the influence of smoking on HIV infection. History of smoking was obtained using a questionnaire. The percentage of current smokers was 40 % and was the highest (50 %) among men in their forties. The mean Brinkman index (BI, number of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by years of smoking) was 450. The percentage of patients with a BI ≥600 was significantly higher in patients with an AIDS-defining event than in those without an AIDS-defining event. A BI ≥600 was associated with an AIDS-defining event. Reducing smoking appears to be critical to enhancing disease management efforts in Japanese men with HIV.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10156-012-0489-1
DO - 10.1007/s10156-012-0489-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879235051
SN - 1341-321X
VL - 19
SP - 542
EP - 544
JO - Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
JF - Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
IS - 3
ER -