Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Hookah smoking and cancer: carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels in exclusive/ever hookah smokers | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Hookah smoking and cancer carcinoembryonic antigen CEA levels in exclusive ever hookah smokers Khan Mohammad Sajid 1 Kamal Chaouachi2 3 and Rubaida Mahmood1 Address 1Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy MINAR Multan Pakistan 2Paris XI University Lecturer DIU Tabacologie Narghile Paris Sud France and 3MINAR Scientific Collaborator Multan Pakistan Email Khan Mohammad Sajid - kmsajid@ Kamal Chaouachi - kamcha@ Rubaida Mahmood - kmsajid@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 24 May 2008 Received 12 March 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 19 doi 1477-7517-5-19 Accepted 24 May 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 19 2008 Sajid et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background We have recently published some work on CEA levels in hookah also called narghile shisha elsewhere and cigarette smokers. Hookah smokers had higher levels of CEA than non-smokers although mean levels were low compared to cigarette smokers. However some of them were also users of other tobacco products cigarettes bidis etc. . Objectives To find serum CEA levels in ever exclusive hookah smokers . those who smoked only hookah no cigarettes bidis etc. prepared between 1 and 4 times a day with a quantity of up to 120 g of a tobacco-molasses mixture each . the tobacco weight equivalent of up to 60 cigarettes of 1 g each and consumed in 1 to 8 sessions. Methods Enhanced chemiluminescent immunometric technique was applied to measure CEA levels in serum samples from 59 exclusive male smokers with age ranging
