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Impact of smoking on the contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in Belgium, 1997-2008

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Authors

Renata T C Yokota; Johan Van der Heyden; Jean Tafforeau; W.J. Nusselder; Robine,J.M.; Herman Van Oyen

Keywords

  1. 2001
  2. 2004
  3. 2008
  4. a
  5. Activities of daily living
  6. Activity
  7. ADL
  8. age
  9. AGE GROUP
  10. AGE GROUPS
  11. Age-group
  12. Aged
  13. an
  14. ARTHRITIS
  15. AS
  16. Attack
  17. Back
  18. Back Pain
  19. Belgian
  20. Belgium
  21. burden
  22. cause
  23. chronic
  24. Chronic disease
  25. chronic diseases
  26. CI
  27. conditions
  28. conference
  29. contribution
  30. data
  31. dépression
  32. disabilities
  33. DISABILITY
  34. disease
  35. Diseases
  36. European
  37. function
  38. Gender
  39. Group
  40. hazard
  41. health
  42. health interview survey
  43. health interview surveys
  44. Heart
  45. heart attack
  46. Heart-attack
  47. HIS
  48. Impact
  49. incidence
  50. Increase
  51. Individuals
  52. Interview
  53. Interview survey
  54. IS
  55. limitation
  56. Limitations
  57. living
  58. Low Back Pain
  59. MEN
  60. method
  61. methods
  62. mobility
  63. Mobility Limitation
  64. MODEL
  65. models
  66. morbidity
  67. mortality
  68. Multiple
  69. older
  70. ON
  71. pain
  72. prevalence
  73. public
  74. public health
  75. Public-health
  76. relative
  77. Respiratory
  78. Respiratory disease
  79. respiratory diseases
  80. result
  81. results
  82. severity
  83. smokers
  84. SMOKING
  85. specific
  86. status
  87. Strategies
  88. Strategy
  89. study
  90. survey
  91. surveys
  92. top
  93. WHO
  94. WOMEN
  95. young

Abstract:

Smoking is considered the single most important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Moreover, smoking can increase the incidence and severity of disabling conditions. In this study, the aim was to assess the impact of smoking on the contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in Belgium.
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