Istvan J A, Cunningham T W, Garfinkel L
Department of Medical Psychology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201-3098.
Int J Epidemiol. 1992 Oct;21(5):849-53. doi: 10.1093/ije/21.5.849.
To investigate the generality of the association of heavy cigarette smoking with increased body weight, the relation of number of cigarettes smoked per day to relative body weight was examined in baseline data for 891,589 participants in a prospective study initiated in 1959. Although the relative weight of cigarette smokers was consistently lower than that of never and exsmokers, men and women smoking two or more packs of cigarettes per day were more likely to be categorized as moderately or severely overweight and less likely to be categorized as underweight than those smoking 10-20 cigarettes per day, despite somewhat greater educational attainment by heavier smokers. These analyses offer support for the temporal generality of the relation between heavier cigarette smoking and greater body weight, and suggest that this phenomenon cannot be explained by historic trends in the socioeconomic stratification of smoking prevalence or smoking dose.
为了研究重度吸烟与体重增加之间关联的普遍性，在一项始于1959年的前瞻性研究中，对891589名参与者的基线数据进行了分析，以考察每日吸烟量与相对体重之间的关系。尽管吸烟者的相对体重始终低于从不吸烟和已戒烟者，但与每天吸10 - 20支烟的人相比，每天吸两包或更多包烟的男性和女性更有可能被归类为中度或重度超重，而被归类为体重过轻的可能性更小，尽管重度吸烟者的教育程度略高。这些分析支持了重度吸烟与体重增加之间关系在时间上的普遍性，并表明这种现象不能用吸烟流行率或吸烟剂量的社会经济分层的历史趋势来解释。
