Trial reportPloS one2013
The effect of a smoking ban on hospitalization rates for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Evaluation of Population-Level Tobacco Control Interventions and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- Smokefree legislation effects on respiratory and sensory disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Legislative smoking bans for reducing harms from secondhand smoke exposure, smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Hospitalization Rates and Associated Factors Among Older Adults With HIV in the United States.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026Article
- Association between a publicly funded universal drug program and antipsychotic and antidepressant medication dispensing to children.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Trends in smoking-related diseases by socioeconomic position following a national smoking ban in 2007: a nationwide study in the Danish population.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System: A model for collaborative surveillance.International journal of population data science · 2018Article
- Effects of smoke-free air law on acute myocardial infarction hospitalization in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Effect of tobacco control policies on perinatal and child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2017Article
- Changes in hospitalizations for chronic respiratory diseases after two successive smoking bans in Spain.PloS one · 2017Article
- Indoor tobacco legislation is associated with fewer emergency department visits for asthma exacerbation in children.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2016Article
- Smoke-free legislation and child health.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2016Review
- Assessing the effects of the Spanish partial smoking ban on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: methodological issues.BMJ open · 2015Article
- Racial Disparities in Asthma Hospitalizations Following Implementation of the Smoke-Free Air Law, Michigan, 2002-2012.Preventing chronic disease · 2015Article
- Diarrhoea and smoking: an analysis of decades of observational data from Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2015Observational
- Cardiovascular Events Following Smoke-Free Legislations: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current environmental health reports · 2014Article
- An international smoking ban-how many lives will be saved?Current atherosclerosis reports · 2014Review
- Fewer hospitalizations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in communities with smoke-free public policies.American journal of public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis is the first study to have examined the effect of smoking bans on hospitalizations in the Atlantic Canadian socio-economic, cultural and climatic context. On June 1, 2003 Prince Edward Island (PEI) enacted a province-wide smoking ban in public places and workplaces. Changes in hospital admission rates for cardiovascular (acute myocardial infarction, angina, and stroke) and respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) conditions were examined before and after the smoking ban.
methodsCrude annual and monthly admission rates for the above conditions were calculated from April 1, 1995 to December 31, 2008 in all PEI acute care hospitals. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average time series models were used to test for changes in mean and trend of monthly admission rates for study conditions, control conditions and a control province after the comprehensive smoking ban. Age- and sex-based analyses were completed.
resultsThe mean rate of acute myocardial infarctions was reduced by 5.92 cases per 100,000 person-months (P = 0.04) immediately after the smoking ban. The trend of monthly angina admissions in men was reduced by -0.44 cases per 100,000 person-months (P = 0.01) in the 67 months after the smoking ban. All other cardiovascular and respiratory admission changes were non-significant.
conclusionsA comprehensive smoking ban in PEI reduced the overall mean number of acute myocardial infarction admissions and the trend of angina hospital admissions.
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