Most people are aware of the deadly health effects of smoking cigarettes such as heart disease
and lung cancer but many smokers are unaware of another deadly disease. Recent study has shown that people that smoke at an early age have a 100% chance of being diagnosed with dementia at a later age. Many families have lost loved ones to dementia and I don’t mean that they have passed on yet because when dementia takes over, the person suffering from the disease has memory loss, and their behavior makes it seem like their spirit is gone. Smokers are aware of the risks of getting cancer while they are smoking but still can’t seem to quit. Cigarette smokers should seek other alternative to smoking to avoid the deadly side effects of tobacco cigarettes.
Heavy smoking in middle age seems to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, a large new study suggests.”We found that people who reported heavy smoking in midlife had more than a 100% increase in risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia,” said lead researcher Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist in Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.
“We have known that smoking is a risk factor for cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease,” she said. “This adds to the evidence that what is bad for the heart is bad for the brain.”
The report is published in the Oct. 25 online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
For the study, Whitmer’s group collected data on 21,123 ethnically diverse people in the Kaiser Permanente health care system who were surveyed between 1978 and 1985, when they were 50 to 60 years old.
During an average follow-up of 23 years, the researchers found that 25.4% were diagnosed with dementia, including Alzheimer’s (1,136 people) or vascular dementia (416 people), which is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular dementia is caused by damage to the arteries in the brain.
Read more at medicinenet.com
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