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A randomised, controlled, two-Centre open-label study in healthy Japanese subjects to evaluate the effect on biomarkers of exposure of switching from a conventional cigarette to a tobacco heating…

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2017
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Title
A randomised, controlled, two-Centre open-label study in healthy Japanese subjects to evaluate the effect on biomarkers of exposure of switching from a conventional cigarette to a tobacco heating product
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4678-9
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Authors

Nathan Gale, Mike McEwan, Alison C. Eldridge, Neil Sherwood, Edward Bowen, Simon McDermott, Emma Holmes, Andrew Hedge, Stuart Hossack, Oscar M. Camacho, Graham Errington, John McAughey, James Murphy, Chuan Liu, Christopher J. Proctor, Ian M. Fearon

Abstract

Smoking is a leading cause of numerous human disorders including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The development of modified risk tobacco products (MRTPs) has been suggested as a possible way to reduce the risks of tobacco smoking by reducing exposure to cigarette smoke toxicants. This study is designed to investigate whether biomarkers of such exposure are reduced when smokers switch from smoking commercial cigarettes to using either a novel or a commercially-available tobacco heating product (THP). This study will assess biomarkers of exposure in current smokers who either remain smoking, switch to THP use, or quit all tobacco use completely, for 5 days. The study is an in-clinic (confinement) two-centre, randomised controlled clinical study with a forced-switching design. Subjects of either gender will be aged 23-55 years (minimum legal smoking age plus 3 years), of Japanese origin and with a verified smoking status (assessed by exhaled breath carbon monoxide and urinary cotinine levels). Subjects will have a usual brand cigarette within the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) tar band of 6-8 mg and will be judged to be healthy by medical history, physical examination, vital signs, electrocardiography (ECG), clinical biochemistry and lung function tests. The primary objective of this study is to assess changes within groups in selected biomarkers of exposure (BoE) and of biological effect (BoBE) after a forced switch from a commercial control cigarette to either a menthol or a non-menthol THP. Secondary objectives are to assess between-group differences, to determine nicotine pharmacokinetics for cigarettes and THPs, to assess subject's satisfaction with the study products, and to monitor additional endpoints related to safety and product use. Data from this study will advance our scientific understanding of the changes in exposure to cigarette smoke toxicants in smokers who switch to using a THP. UMIN000024988 (25th November 2016); ISRCTN14301360 (14th December 2016).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 94 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 14%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 4%
Lecturer 4 4%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 39 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 10%
Psychology 4 4%
Unspecified 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 42 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2021.
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#5,662,102
of 22,999,744 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,598
of 14,985 outputs
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#88,737
of 317,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#79
of 170 outputs
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