ReviewRedox biology2020
Waterpipe (shisha, hookah) smoking, oxidative stress and hidden disease potential.
Review in Redox biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- The waterpipe smoking and human health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 191 observational studies.Systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
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- Comparative Effects of Cigarette and Hookah Smoking on Oral Microbiota Composition and Blood Indices in Young Adult Males.FASEB bioAdvances · 2026Article
- Better adherence to the life's essential 8 can reduce the risk of gallstone disease: mediated by inflammation and oxidative stress.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The impact of chronic exposure to cigarette and waterpipe smoke extracts on telomeres, telomerase, and cancer progression.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Waterpipe smoke condensate activates autophagy in non-tumorigenic lung epithelial cells: Implications for inflammation and stemness.PloS one · 2026Article
- Effect of the cysteine prodrug L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid onFrontiers in toxicology · 2026Article
- Differences in clinical features between current smokers and former smokers with OSA: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Smoking exposure and cervical cancer risk: Integrating observational and genetic evidence.The Journal of international medical research · 2025Observational
- Analyzing 8-Oxoguanine in Exhaled Breath Condensate: A Novel Within-Subject Laboratory Experimental Study on Waterpipe Smokers.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of a Healthy Lifestyle With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Individuals With Probable Sarcopenia: Population-Based Cohort Study.JMIR aging · 2025Article
- Analysis of Nicotine Toxicity and Mechanisms of Senescence in Nucleus Pulposus Cells Using Network Toxicology and Molecular Docking Technique.JOR spine · 2025Article
- Chronic Exposure to Two Regimens of Waterpipe Smoke Elicits Lung Injury, Genotoxicity, and Mitochondrial Impairment with the Involvement of MAPKs Activation in Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Semen Quality Measures in Hookah and Cigarette Smokers Compared to Nonsmokers.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2025Article
- MT1G promotes iron autophagy and inhibits the function of gastric cancer cell lines by intervening in GPX4/SQSTM1.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Water-pipe Tobacco Components and their Association with Oxidative Stress.Addiction & health · 2024Review
- Roles of MDA-LDL/OX-LDL/LOX-1 and TNF-α/TLR4/NF-κB Signaling Pathways in Myocardial Damage by Implantations of Cardiac Pacemakers in Elderly Patients.Current vascular pharmacology · 2024Article
- Waterpipe smoke inhalation induces lung injury and aortic endothelial dysfunction in mice.Physiological research · 2023Article
- Genotoxicity of waterpipe smoking in young adults from Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.Heliyon · 2023Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Due to the abundant research on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking and the strict regulations enacted by many health authorities, many smokers are seeking for safer and more acceptable tobacco forms. Waterpipe (also known as shisha or hookah) use has increased dramatically during the past decade, mostly due to its improved taste, lack of regulations and social acceptability as a safer option than cigarettes. However, recent clinical and experimental studies indicate that waterpipe use is as, or even more, harmful than cigarettes. Although they differ in the method of consumption, waterpipe tobacco has similar deleterious constituents found in cigarettes but are generated at greater amounts. These constituents are known to induce oxidative stress and inflammation, the major underlying mechanisms of a wide array of chronic pathological conditions. We review the relationship between waterpipe tobacco use and oxidative stress and the disease potential of waterpipe use.
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