Abstract
Estonian Genome Bank is a population based biobank what combines DNA samples with general health questionnaire data. This repository contains data of more than 50,000 people. Database involves general data about the donors lifestyle (smoking, dinking, education, jobs etc) and about their health. We included to our analysis only these persons who responded about their smoking habits. Smoking status was divided into three categories: current smoker, former smoker and persons never smoked. Half of smokers have smoking duration over 20 years. Health status describes the disease people have. Our analysis focused on the smoking behaviour and its relations to the heart and lung disease and to the malignancies. Preliminary data analysis indicated that former smokers had higher prevalence of COPD and lung cancer than current smokers and never smokers. This finding may reflect that former smoker quit smoking due to emerging health problem.
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