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Occupational exposure to charcoal smoke and dust is a threat to workers' respiratory systems. ⋯ In rural areas of DRC, producing or selling charcoal is associated with a higher risk of COPD.
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Latino adults experience multiple barriers to health care access and treatment that result in tobacco-related disparities. Mobile interventions have the potential to deliver smoking cessation treatment among Latino adults, who show the highest use rates of mobile technologies. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03586596.
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Many organizations recommend clinicians use structured communication processes, referred to as shared decision-making, to improve patient-reported outcomes for patients considering lung cancer screening (LCS). ⋯ Patients undergoing LCS rarely experience moderate or greater decision regret and distress. Although many participants reported mild decision regret, most were very satisfied over the 1 year after LDCT imaging for LCS. Communication processes were not associated with regret and distress, suggesting that it may be challenging for communication interventions to reduce the harms of LCS.