ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners1999
Stopping smoking and body weight in women living in the United Kingdom.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits.Nature communications · 2017Pooled it
- Smoking Cessation and Changes in Body Mass Index: Findings From the First Randomized Cessation Trial in a Low-Income Country Setting.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Trial
- Smoking cessation and subsequent weight change.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Article
- Validation of recall of body weight over a 26-year period in cohort members of the Adventist Health Study 2.Annals of epidemiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Most studies of the effect of stopping smoking on weight in women have been cross-sectional in design and have been conducted abroad. A survey of subjects still participating in the Royal College of General Practitioners Oral Contraception Study was used to examine changes in weight among women of different smoking status and living in the United Kingdom. During roughly a 26-year period, there was a threefold increase (to 15% in 1994/1995) in the prevalence of obese (body mass index [BMI] > 30) women among the cohort. Women who stopped smoking had the largest increases in mean BMI and in the proportion of obese women at 1994/95. These results support the notion that stopping smoking leads to weight gain.
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