Osteoporosis : Risk Factors
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Dietary calcium deficiency
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Osteoporosis History
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Sedentary Lifestyle
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Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is the most commonly used drug in the world. Pharmacologically, alcohol is classified as a central nervous system depressant.
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This report includes information on recognizing the symptoms of problem drinking, treatment techniques, coping with a loved one's drinking, and overcoming denial.
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Alcoholism is defined as alcohol seeking and consumption behavior that is harmful. Long-term and uncontrollable harmful consumption can cause alcohol-related disorders that include: antisocial personality disorder , mood disorders (bipolar and major depression) and anxiety disorders.
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It's important to understand how alcohol and drugs can affect your health and well being.
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Besides having trouble with school and relationships, teenagers taking drugs may display emotional extremes with irritability, anger and changes in sleep patterns.
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Excessive drinking can cause potentially fatal conditions, not only high blood pressure, but also damage to the brain, heart or liver; diabetes and stroke.
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Like cancer or heart disease, alcoholism is a primary chronic disease with its own symptoms and causes. The disease is progressive and often fatal if not treated.
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Effective treatment for alcohol dependency is available, but treatment rates among alcohol abusers are low because of lack of awareness and embarrassment.
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Each year, about 100,000 deaths in the United States are related to alcohol consumption. Learn more about the effects of abusing alcohol by taking this quiz.
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Detailed information on bone cancers, including chondrosarcoma, ewings sarcoma, myeloma bone disease, multiple myeloma, and osteosarcoma
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Detailed information on bone cancer in children, including Ewing sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma
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Understanding Bone Metastases—When Cancer Spreads to the BonesCancer that has developed in one place can spread and invade other parts of the body. This process of spreading is called metastasizing.
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How Can I Prevent Primary Bone Cancer?At this time, there is no way to prevent primary bone cancer.
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Am I At Risk for Primary Bone Cancer?There is really no way to know for sure if you’re going to get primary bone cancer.
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How Does My Doctor Know I Have Primary Bone Cancer?If you’re having symptoms of primary bone cancer, see your doctor.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Primary Bone CancerHere are some answers to frequently asked questions about primary bone cancer.Q: What is primary bone cancer?A: There are 2 categories of bone cancer: primary and secondary.Primary bone canceris ...
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Understanding Your Grade and Stage of Primary Bone CancerPrimary bone cancer acts differently in each person. Your doctor uses staging studies, such as the imaging tests and biopsy, to determine how fast your cancer is growing and how far it has s...
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Making the Decision to Have Radiation Therapy for Primary Bone CancerRadiation therapy is also calledradiotherapy. Its goal is to use radiation to kill or shrink cancer cells while doing as little harm as possible to normal cells.
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What to Know About Chemotherapy for Primary Bone CancerChemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer. It is a systemic treatment.
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What Is Primary Bone Cancer?To help you understand what is happening when you have cancer, it helps to know how your body works normally.
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Types of Surgery for Primary Bone CancerSurgery is the main treatment for most bone cancers. The type of surgery you have depends on your health and the stage and location of the tumor.
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Types and Goals of Treatment for Primary Bone CancerMost people with primary bone cancer will have more than one treatment. The treatments you have depend on your age, general health, and the stage and type of the bone cancer.Here are the treatmen...
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Statistics About Primary Bone CancerSome people use statistics to try to figure out their chance of getting cancer. Or they use them to try to figure out their chance of being cured.
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Cushing syndrome is a disease that occurs when your body produces too much of the hormone cortisol. It may also occur if you use take too much cortisol or other steroid hormones. See also: Cushing's disease (pituitary Cushing's; Cushing syndrome caused by adrenal tumor; Cushing syndrome - exogenous; Ectopic Cushing syndrome.
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Cushing syndrome was first described by an American neurosurgeon in the early twentieth century named Harvey Cushing. Cushing recognized a specific set of symptoms that collectively he identified as part of a syndrome.
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Cushing ' s syndrome is a relatively rare endocrine (hormonal) disorder resulting from excessive exposure to the hormone cortisol. The disorder, which leads to a variety of symptoms and physical abnormalities, is most commonly caused by taking medications containing the hormone over a long period of time.
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Cushing ' s syndrome is a relatively rare endocrine (hormonal) disorder resulting from excessive exposure to the hormone cortisol. The disorder, which leads to a variety of symptoms and physical abnormalities, is most commonly caused by taking medications containing the hormone over a long period of time.
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The term " eating disorders " encompasses a group of problems that fall into two broad categories- overeating (binging), and undereating (anorexia)- sometimes referred to as " starving or stuffing. " Eating disorders are most commonly found in young females during early adolescence.
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A growing number are children, usually girls, aren't overweight but believe they are. Says a California pediatrician: Magazines and TV shows that worship ultra-thin models and pop stars fuel the trend.
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Eating disorders are characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with food and/or body weight. Eating disorders are rooted in complex emotional issues that center on self-esteem and pervasive societal messages that equate thinness with happiness.
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Boys and men have eating disorders, too. Males make up 5 to 15 percent of patients with anorexia or bulimia and 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder.
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Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have risen steadily to affect nearly 10 million women (and 1 million men).
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Detailed information on eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia
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Detailed information on eating disorders in children, including anorexia and bulimia
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Detailed information on the most common types of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder
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Detailed information on adolescents and eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and obesity
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Detailed information on adolescents and eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and obesity
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The female athlete triad is a common nutritional disorder among female athletes caused by the drive of girls and women to be unrealistically thin in an attempt to improve performance. The disorder is most common in sports judged by build (e.
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Eating disorders affect both the mind and the body. Although deviant eating patterns have been reported throughout history, eating disorders were first identified as medical conditions by the British physician William Gull in 1873.
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What's behind the rise in eating disorders? For one thing, experts' growing awareness may lead to more diagnoses. Another reason: A weight-obsessed culture bombarded by media "thin" messages.
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Hyperparathyroidism is excessive production of parathyroid hormone by the parathyroid glands.
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Detailed information on hyperparathyroidism, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on hyperparathyroidism, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Parathyroid glands are four pea-sized glands located just behind the thyroid gland in the front of the neck. The function of parathyroid glands is to produce a hormone called parathyroid hormone (parathormone), which helps regulate calcium and phosphorous in the body.
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Hyperparathyroidism is the overproduction by the parathyroid glands of a hormone called parathyroid hormone (parathormone). Parathyroid glands are four pea-sized glands located just behind the thyroid gland in the front of the neck.
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Hyperthyroidism is a condition caused by an overactive thyroid gland. The gland makes too much T4 and T3 hormones. Hormones are substances that affect and control many important functions in the body.
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This small gland can cause a multitude of problems affecting every system in your body. Here's how to tell if your thyroid gland is producing too much or too little hormone and what to do about it.
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Detailed information on hyperthyroidism, including symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on hyperthyroidism (Graves disease), including cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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When you have hypothyroidism, your thyroid gland doesn’t produce enough hormone. With hyperthyroidism, the thyroid gland produces too much hormone. A goiter is the enlargement of the thyroid gland.
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Detailed information on hyperthyroidism, including symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
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Hyperthyroidism is the overproduction of thyroid hormones by an overactive thyroid. Located in the front of the neck, the thyroid gland produces the hormones thyroxine (T 4 ) and triiodothyro-nine (T 3 ) that regulate the body ' s metabolic rate by helping to form protein ribonucleic acid (RNA) and increasing oxygen absorption in every cell.
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Hyperthyroidism is the overproduction of thyroid hormones by an overactive thyroid. The term hyperthyroidism covers any disease which results in overabundance of thyroid hormone.
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Hyperthyroidism is the overproduction of thyroid hormones by an overactive thyroid gland. Located in the front of the neck, the thyroid gland produces the hormones thyroxine (T 4 ) and triiodothyro-nine (T 3 ) that regulate the body ' s metabolic rate by helping to form protein ribonucleic acid (RNA) and increasing oxygen absorption in every cell.
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Hyperthyroidism is the condition that reflects excessive concentrations of thyroid hormones, due to any cause. The resulting hypermetabolic state causes increased heat production and accelerates many of the bodies ' processes.
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Menopause represents the end of menstruation . While technically it refers to the final menstrual period, it is not an abrupt event, but a gradual process.
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Menopause is the transition period in a woman's life when her ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstruation becomes less frequent, eventually stopping altogether.
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This report takes a view of the whole woman and helps her choose the most practical strategies for making her midlife transition.
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Detailed information on menopause, including perimenopause, hormone replacement therapy, and staying healthy after menopause
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Menopause represents the end of menstruation. While technically it refers to the final period, it is not an abrupt event, but a gradual process.
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All About MenopauseMenopause -- when estrogen and progesterone production, ovulation and menstruation stop -- is a natural part of a woman's life. The average age that women reach menopause is 51.The years leading up to menopause, called perimenop...
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Detailed information on menopause, including symptoms, treatment, and sex after menopause
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Medically, menopause is the cessation of menstruation and signifies the inability to bear children. It is determined as one year from the last menstrual cycle.
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A Prescription for Health in MenopauseThe best approach to menopause is to follow a healthy regimen. That includes dealing with smoking, nutrition, exercise, weight management and stress reduction.SmokingSmoking is a leading cause of preventable i...
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Detailed information on staying healthy after menopause
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Detailed information on staying healthy after menopause
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Detailed information on menopause, including symptoms, treatment, and sex after menopause
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Young girls start menstruating between the ages of eleven and thirteen, when their reproductive systems reach maturity. Women have regular menstrual cycles every twenty-eight days until about the age of fifty, at which time menstruation becomes irregular.
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Today's women understand that menopause is not a disease. It is a normal event; a passage from one stage of life to another.
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A generation ago, hot flashes, irregular periods, and mood swings would have been labeled menopause or “the change of life.” Today, your doctor is more likely to call this perimenopause, a new term for the transitional years leading up to the end of menstruation.
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The average age of natural menopause in the United States is 51, but it can occur anytime between ages 40 and 55.
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Does the process of going through menopause affect cholesterol levels?
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How does estrogen use and menopause affect someone with a seizure disorder?
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I seem to be experiencing premenopausal symptoms and am in good health otherwise. My doctor has suggested NuvaRing for estrogen therapy. I know this is still relatively new. Can you give me more information on NuvaRing for menopause symptoms?
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Does acupuncture help with menopause symptoms like hot flashes?
Diana Post, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Menopausal Hormone Use: Questions and AnswersKey PointsMenopausal hormone use (sometimes referred to as hormone replacement therapy or postmenopausal hormone use) involves taking either estrogen alone or estrogen in combination with progesterone o...
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What is the oldest age a woman can still take low-dose birth control pills as a form of HRT if no problems exist?
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Is there any connection between surgically induced menopause and fibromyalgia? And does taking estrogen seem to help or hurt the condition?
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Detailed information on menopause, including perimenopause, hormone replacement therapy, and staying healthy after menopause
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Hormone therapy may help prevent heart disease in women after all, if the treatment is started closer to menopause. Two clinical trials are hoping to provide more conclusive results.
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This report provides information on using the latest detection methods, understanding your diagnosis, and choosing the most effective treatment.
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Studies regarding hormone treatment for women in menopause have produced conflicting results, but there is evidence that starting the treatment in the years prior to menopause may be of greater benefit.
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Hormonal changes can precede menopause by months or years. The latest information about what characterizes this life change and how to treat its symptoms.
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I had a partial hysterectomy more than 17 years ago. How does a woman like me know when menopause has ended when she has not had a period in so many years?
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Amenorrhea is the medical term for the absence of menstruation . There are two types of amenorrhea, primary and secondary.
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Detailed information on amenorrhea, including causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation. There are two types of amenorrhea, primary and secondary.
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Detailed information on amenorrhea, including causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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When you first get your period, it’s normal to be confused and wonder what’s happening to you. If all your questions aren’t answered here, talk to your mom or someone else you trust.
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Detailed information on amenorrhea, including causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on amenorrhea, including causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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The absence of menstrual periods is called amenorrhea. If a woman has never had any menstrual blood flow by the age of 16, doctors call this primary amenorrhea.
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The absence of menstrual periods is called amenorrhea. Primary amenorrhea is the failure to start having a period by the age of 16.
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Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation and is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Primary amenorrhea refers to the absence of the onset of menstruation by age 16 whether or not normal growth and secondary sexual characteristics are present, or the absence of menses after age 14 when normal growth and signs of secondary sexual characteristics are present.
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This decision guide is designed to help women with secondary amenorrhea understand what may be causing it and the questions your doctor will want to ask.
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I have been off of the birth control patch for seven months and I am still not getting a period. I am not pregnant, and my annual physical was fine. Why would I still not be getting a period?
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The average age at which American women go through menopause is 51 years. If menopause (hormonal changes at the end of the female reproductive years) occurs before age 40, it is said to be premature menopause.
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Detailed information on starting an exercise program to lower your risk of heart disease
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Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress .
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Question: What are the negative effects of smoking?Answer: Smokers have an increased risk of the following:Lung cancerLung diseaseHeart attackHeart diseaseHypertensionStrokeOral cancerBladder cancerPancreatic cancerCervical cancerPregnancy complic...
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When you smoke, toxins are carried by your blood to every organ in your body. At the same time, the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke keeps red blood cells from carrying as much oxygen as normal.
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Use of cigarettes and other tobacco products to engage in a habit that almost always leads to addiction. Every day 3,000 young people light up their first cigarette; every year a million teenagers become regular smokers.
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Right away, you may cough, wheeze, and have a sore throat—that’s the tar clogging up your lungs. You may also have a headache, feel dizzy, and be nauseated—that’s the nicotine in your brain. Over time, you risk lung and throat cancer, and lung diseases like emphysema and bronchitis.
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Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress .
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Smoking during pregnancy reduces oxygen and blood flow to your baby. This may cause bleeding problems that can put your pregnancy at risk.
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