Women Smokers More Risk

Smoking woman stopped stopMungkin everyone already knows that cigarettes are dangerous to health. But, in fact, every year the number of addicts in Indonesia continues to grow. Recent data says that 31, 4 percent of Indonesia's population smokes, and 4.83 percent of whom are women.

As reported in the journal Stroke, published by the American Heart Association, cigarette addict young women at risk more than doubled suffered a stroke than those who do not smoke.

Even the woman who belongs to the category of heavy addicts, soaring higher risk of stroke that is up to nine times.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine reveals that indication after doing research on stroke risk among women smokers aged 15 to 49 years.

Research shows women smokers had a 2.6-fold tendency of having a stroke than non-smokers. According to lead researcher, Dr. John Cole, a woman with cigarette consumption at most faces the highest risk of experiencing an attack that can cause paralysis and death.

For example, women who spend an average of 21 to 39 cigarettes per day was noted to have a stroke risk 4.3 times higher than non-smokers. While those who smoked about 40 cigarettes, or about two packs per day, the risk of having a stroke can reach 9.1 times more than non-smokers.

Cole confirms the results of this research are more tangible evidence that smoking can trigger the risk of stroke, also known as the silent killer. But he did not explain how the risk of stroke can be influenced number of cigarettes smoked a person.

Stroke is usually attacked by two age groups than this study population, but this research shows that in teenagers or young woman was the risk of stroke increased significantly.

In this research, experts analyzed the medical records of 466 women who had a stroke and 604 other women who have had a stroke at age group, race and ethnicity are equal. According to research data, about a quarter of US women aged 18 to 24 years are active smokers, and Cole plans to develop similar research by focusing the risk of stroke in men younger age groups.

Whatever the reason for maintaining the habit of smoking, even it plunges deeper into the abyss of the disease.

But, in fact, the smoking habit hard to break and rarely recognized people as a bad habit. Moreover, people who smoke to distract yourself from stress and emotional stress, more difficult to break away from this habit than smokers who do not have a background of depression.

Women Smokers More Risk 2015-02-26T08:00:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: BlackEarth