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Long COVID: What are the risk and protective factors?

Natalia Reoutova, 20230401000000

A population-based, multicentre study finds female gender, transportation-, logistics- or discipline-related occupation, living with domestic workers, smoking, poor or very poor self-perceived health status, ≥3 chronic diseases, chronic medication use, and critical severity of COVID-19 to be associated with severe long COVID, while prior receipt of ≥2 doses of COVID-19 vaccines serves as a protective factor.

Remote smoking cessation programme delivers encouraging results in high-risk individuals

Roshini Claire Anthony, 20220920180001

A smoking cessation intervention delivered via telephone resulted in greater smoking cessation rates than usual care among individuals enrolled in targeted lung health screening, according to results of the QuLIT*2 study from the UK presented at ERS 2022.

Tobacco control main contributor to Hong Kong’s world-leading longevity

Natalia Reoutova, 20211117000000

A study led by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has identified stringent tobacco control and resulting low smoking rates as the key reasons behind Hong Kong’s world-leading longevity.

Varenicline for smoking cessation in teens?

Pearl Toh, 20191101181500

While adding varenicline to weekly counselling for smoking cessation did not improve abstinence rates among adolescent smokers at the end of treatment, it may promote earlier abstinence and sustained response to varenicline post-treatment, a study finds.

Combined nicotine replacement therapy may boost smoking cessation rates

Roshini Claire Anthony, 20191030140101

Combining a nicotine patch plus a nicotine e-cigarette could potentially boost the likelihood of smoking cessation in adults aiming to quit smoking, according to a study from New Zealand.

Smoking cessation: Q&A with respiratory specialist Dr Ong Kian Chung

20190224060000

Dr Ong Kian Chung, a respiratory specialist at the KC Ong Chest & Medical Clinic, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore spoke on the evils of tobacco use and how clinicians can help in smoking cessation.

New asthma guide: What doctors should know

Pearl Toh, 26 Nov 2020

Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) should be the mainstay of long-term asthma management — such is the key message of the latest Singapore ACE* Clinical Guidance (ACG) for asthma, released in October 2020.

Kids hard-hit by Delta; which ART performs best?

Elvira Manzano, 24 Oct 2021

That COVID-19 mostly spared children might be changing. The Delta variant has taken a severe, unthinkable toll on kids – at least in Arkansas, US, reports an expert at IDWeek 2021.

Long COVID: What we have learned so far

Prof. Ghassan Dbaibo, 27 Apr 2023

The WHO defines long COVID as a condition that occurs 3 months from COVID-19 onset, whose symptoms last ≥2 months and cannot be attributed to an alternative diagnosis. In an interview with MIMS Doctor, Professor Ghassan Dbaibo of the Center for Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, describes the evolving attitudes towards long COVID among healthcare professionals (HCPs), some unexpected predisposing factors, potential biological mechanisms behind prolonged symptom duration and shares data on vaccination’s protective effects against long COVID.