RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Smoking and mortality from peptic ulcer in the United Kingdom.
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 1369
OP 1372
DO 10.1136/gut.27.11.1369
VO 27
IS 11
A1 A Sonnenberg
YR 1986
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/27/11/1369.abstract
AB The present paper compares the temporal changes of cigarette consumption with those of peptic ulcer mortality in the United Kingdom. Cumulative cigarette consumption increased in men born between 1845 and 1915 and remained constant or decreased in all subsequent generations. It increased in women born between 1835 and 1955. In contrast, both male and female mortality from gastric and duodenal ulcer were highest in those born around 1875-1885. From the lack of coincidence in the trends of peptic ulcer mortality and cumulative cigarette consumption it is concluded that changing smoking habits were not responsible for the birth cohort patterns of the death rates from gastric and duodenal ulcer.