RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contribution of Chronic Conditions to the Disability Burden across Smoking Categories in Middle-Aged Adults, Belgium Renata Tiene de Carvalho Yokota1,2*, Wilma Johanna Nusselder3, Jean-Marie Robine4,5, Jean Tafforeau1, Patrick Deboosere2, Herman Van Oyen1,6
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1 Department of Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Rue Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, 1050, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Department of Sociology, Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4 French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Montpellier, France, 5 École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France, 6 Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium * [email protected]
Abstract OPEN ACCESS
Introduction
Citation: Yokota RTdC, Nusselder WJ, Robine J-M, Tafforeau J, Deboosere P, Van Oyen H (2016) Contribution of Chronic Conditions to the Disability Burden across Smoking Categories in Middle-Aged Adults, Belgium. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153726
Smoking is considered the single most important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, contributing to increased incidence and severity of disabling conditions. The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of chronic conditions to the disability burden across smoking categories in middle-aged adults in Belgium.
Editor: Alexander G Obukhov, Indiana University School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
Methods
Received: January 21, 2016 Accepted: April 1, 2016 Published: April 22, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Yokota et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: The data are protected by the Belgian legislation (Privacy Act of 08 December, 1992) and cannot be freely shared. Researchers who meet the criteria to access the data may request permission to the Belgian Privacy Commission ([email protected]). The description of the procedure to have access to the HIS data can be found at: https://his.wivisp.be/fr/ SitePages/Procedure_donnees2013.aspx. Funding: This study is part of the HYSMOKHIA project - "Healthy Life Years and Smoking: a Health Impact Assessment of Tobacco Control Scenarios on
Data from 10,224 individuals aged 40 to 60 years who participated in the 1997, 2001, 2004, or 2008 Health Interview Surveys in Belgium were used. Smoking status was defined as never, former (cessation 2 years), former (cessation
Contribution of Chronic Conditions to the Disability Burden across Smoking Categories in Middle-Aged Adults, Belgium Renata Tiene de Carvalho Yokota1,2*, Wilma Johanna Nusselder3, Jean-Marie Robine4,5, Jean Tafforeau1, Patrick Deboosere2, Herman Van Oyen1,6
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1 Department of Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Rue Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, 1050, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Department of Sociology, Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4 French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Montpellier, France, 5 École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France, 6 Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium * [email protected]
Abstract OPEN ACCESS
Introduction
Citation: Yokota RTdC, Nusselder WJ, Robine J-M, Tafforeau J, Deboosere P, Van Oyen H (2016) Contribution of Chronic Conditions to the Disability Burden across Smoking Categories in Middle-Aged Adults, Belgium. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153726
Smoking is considered the single most important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, contributing to increased incidence and severity of disabling conditions. The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of chronic conditions to the disability burden across smoking categories in middle-aged adults in Belgium.
Editor: Alexander G Obukhov, Indiana University School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
Methods
Received: January 21, 2016 Accepted: April 1, 2016 Published: April 22, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Yokota et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: The data are protected by the Belgian legislation (Privacy Act of 08 December, 1992) and cannot be freely shared. Researchers who meet the criteria to access the data may request permission to the Belgian Privacy Commission ([email protected]). The description of the procedure to have access to the HIS data can be found at: https://his.wivisp.be/fr/ SitePages/Procedure_donnees2013.aspx. Funding: This study is part of the HYSMOKHIA project - "Healthy Life Years and Smoking: a Health Impact Assessment of Tobacco Control Scenarios on
Data from 10,224 individuals aged 40 to 60 years who participated in the 1997, 2001, 2004, or 2008 Health Interview Surveys in Belgium were used. Smoking status was defined as never, former (cessation 2 years), former (cessation
