Trends in smoking among adults from 1980 to 2009: The Minnesota heart survey

K.B. Filion, L.M. Steffen, S. Duval, D.R. Jacobs , H. Blackburn and R.V. Luepker

American Journal of Public Health, 2012, vol. 102, issue 4, 705-713

Abstract: Objectives. We examined population-based smoking trends in Minnesota between 1980 and 2009. Methods. The Minnesota Heart Survey (MHS) is a population-based, serial, cross-sectional study of cardiovascular risk factor trends among Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan residents. The MHS recently completed its sixth survey (1980-1982 [n=3799], 1985-1987 [n=4641], 1990-1992 [n=5159], 1995-1997 [n=6690], 2000-2002 [n=3281], and 2007-2009 [n=3179]). We used MHS data to examine smoking trends among adults aged 25 to 74 years by means of ageadjusted generalized linear mixed models. Results. Between 1980 and 2009, the prevalence of current smoking decreased from 32.8% to 15.5% for men and from 32.7% to 12.2% for women (P

Date: 2012
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