The reported population-level trends in smoking, the countrys longest-running epidemic, might be a result of distinct, time-varying factors like age (association between age and smoking status), and/or period (differences in smoking prevalence due to changing sociocultural environments that shape smoking practices collectively among all individuals), and/or cohort (shifts in smoking status among groups of individuals that belong to different generations) 1,5,6
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In contrast, the AIM-HIGH (Atherothrombosis intervention in metabolic syndrome with low HDL/high triglycerides: impact on global health outcomes) trial, which examined the incremental effect of extended-release nicotinic acid (1.5-2 g/day) on 3,414 patients who had established CVD and atherogenic dyslipidemia and were treated with simvastatin (+/- ezetimibe), provided disappointing results
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The CEC includes undergraduate and medical student summer interns, predoctoral scholars enrolled in doctoral programs at the college, postdoctoral fellows and faculty investigators new to tobacco regulatory science
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