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    Características de las enfermedades producidas por el tabaquismo, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso de la ciudad de Cuenca durante el período 1997 2001
    (2004) Mora Armijos, Ginna Paola; Vélez Rivera, Marco Vinicio; Vélez Rivera, Ricardo Alberto; Auquilla Díaz, Nancy Eulalia; García Alvear, Jorge Luis
    It aims to identify the pathologies associated with cigarette smoking in 1938 patients hospitalized at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital of Cuenca, during the period 1997-2001. The retrospective study is observational, data were collected from medical records of the departments of surgery and intensive care clinic of the institution. The universe was classified by age categories, most patients had a low level of education, and were of urban aprocedencia. The professions included: housework, followed by agricultural activities and unemployed, among others. Most patients were admitted for nervous system disorders, systemic diseases, diseases in the respiratory and circulatory, a small percentage of them had smoking. The conjunction as dependence between smoking and diseases of the respiratory tract; whereas the conditions in the endocrine system and the genitourinary system is independent, but could not determine cause-effect relationships between diseases affecting other devices and cigarette smoking