Does anybody have experience using SCoRS or MoCA in chronic smokeless tobacco chewers?

21 July 2013 1 3K Report

Cognition abnormality among smokers has been documented, but not with smokeless tobacco users. Has anyone studied or has come across any material regarding this? I prefer using SCoRS or MoCA to study the same.

S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

Smokeless tobacco use occurs frequently in Sweden but is forbidden in Finland.

Based on the literature it seems to me that MoCA is suitable relative to tobacco dependency: http://www.nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/feinberg-mahan-kohl-the-use-of-the-moca-as-a-brief-screen-for-cognitive-impairment-montreal-cognitive-assessment.pdf

(http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_o_013.pdf)

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