NEW FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH OF SMOKERS
Smoking and oral health problems
The findings of a series of studies involving researches from the centres for disease control and prevention CDC, USA on feb 7, 2012 have given the following findings.
1) Smokers have 4 times the risk of developing oral health problems including mouth cancers, teeth and gum diseases compared to people who have never smoked.
2) People who have been smokerds but have stped smoking now are at half the risk of those who continue to smoke but twice the risk of non smokers in developing oral health problems.
Smoking and brain function
Whitehall II study in smokers by British researchers has revealed that
1) Male smokers loose their brain functions 10 years earlier than their non smoking counterparts. That is a smoker of age 50 years has the same cognitive decline as that of a 60 year old non smoker. But similar studies in women showed that no such rapid decline happened in women smokers.
2)The detrimental effects off cigarette smoking on memory and other brain funchions have been found as early as 45 years of age.
3) Study also showed that long term smokers who had recently stopped smoking were at nearly the same risk especially in executive function while those who have stopped smoking early didnot show the faster decline in cognitive function showed by their counterparts.
This study was aimed to study possible links between smoking history and cognitive decline in the transition from midlife to old age using data from 5,099 men and 2,137 women who are involved in a large research project called the Whitehall II study, which is based on employees of the British Civil Service.
Smoking and Psoriasis
Smoking is also found to aggreviate the risk of psoriasis.
Psoriasis is an auto immune disease affecting the skin where the immune system of the body mistakes the body's own skin cells to be a pathogen and starts the faulty response against these cells causing thick, red, scaly patches on the skin.
1) Smokers were at twice the risk of developing psoriasis than non smokers
2) people who were smoking earlier but quit smoking were 39% more at risk of developing psoriasis
studies in past have also shown that obesity and drinking also increase the risk for psoriasis.
The study invovled 186,000 men and women who were followed for 12 to 20 years, out of which 2,410 developed psoriasis during that time
the study was published in American Journal of Epidemiology, January 12, 2012
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/yUGYiX
The findings of a series of studies involving researches from the centres for disease control and prevention CDC, USA on feb 7, 2012 have given the following findings.
1) Smokers have 4 times the risk of developing oral health problems including mouth cancers, teeth and gum diseases compared to people who have never smoked.
Smoking and brain function
Whitehall II study in smokers by British researchers has revealed that
1) Male smokers loose their brain functions 10 years earlier than their non smoking counterparts. That is a smoker of age 50 years has the same cognitive decline as that of a 60 year old non smoker. But similar studies in women showed that no such rapid decline happened in women smokers.
2)The detrimental effects off cigarette smoking on memory and other brain funchions have been found as early as 45 years of age.
3) Study also showed that long term smokers who had recently stopped smoking were at nearly the same risk especially in executive function while those who have stopped smoking early didnot show the faster decline in cognitive function showed by their counterparts.
This study was aimed to study possible links between smoking history and cognitive decline in the transition from midlife to old age using data from 5,099 men and 2,137 women who are involved in a large research project called the Whitehall II study, which is based on employees of the British Civil Service.
Smoking and Psoriasis
Psoriasis is an auto immune disease affecting the skin where the immune system of the body mistakes the body's own skin cells to be a pathogen and starts the faulty response against these cells causing thick, red, scaly patches on the skin.
1) Smokers were at twice the risk of developing psoriasis than non smokers
2) people who were smoking earlier but quit smoking were 39% more at risk of developing psoriasis
studies in past have also shown that obesity and drinking also increase the risk for psoriasis.
The study invovled 186,000 men and women who were followed for 12 to 20 years, out of which 2,410 developed psoriasis during that time
the study was published in American Journal of Epidemiology, January 12, 2012
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/yUGYiX
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