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Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

...a younger age. However, the researchers found that smoking does not increase the risk of developing Alzheimer...a gene linked to the disease. Indeed, they believe smoking may offer protection against the disease for people with the gene - APOE epsilon 4. The Dutch resea...

Pregnant smokers could harm their child

... is developing so the child becomes predisposed to smoking because they are accustomed to the smoke component...as important that both mothers and fathers gave up smoking during pregnancy and did not start again once the child was born....

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

Women who continue smoking while trying to have a baby risk having to wait si...ive than non-smokers. // However, women who quit smoking a year before attempting to conceive were likely to get pregnant within a similar time period as non...

Bronchitis in the young

...he lungs. The researchers stressed, however, that smoking was not the only risk factor for chronic bronchitis. Some 19% of sufferers did not smoke at all. Other likely risk factors include poverty, and exposure to respiratory irritants....

Photographs as a parameter

...h the eyes and risk of stroke, like diabetes, age, smoking and high blood pressure. Ann Elsner from eye institute Boston says the study shows the value of looking carefully at the eye. "The eyes are the windows to the world," she says.Hu Ssang studied vascular changes on the micrometer scale - far too small...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

... adolescents who think their parents disapprove of smoking are less likely to pick up the habit. Teens are mu...ed that their parents would strongly disapprove of smoking were less likely to become smokers than their peers who believed that neither parent would disapprov...

Teen smoking declines

...alants continued in 2001. //Decreases in cigarette smoking were also observed. These important declines in teen smoking did not just happen by chance. A lot of individuals and organizations have been making concerted eff...

Unsatisfactory Grade On Women's Health Issues

...tes rates or in promoting programs to cut obesity, smoking or high blood pressure in women....

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...e so. In addition to this, many more--such as age, smoking and body composition--contribute to a person's cholesterol levels....

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...adder cancer. But the damaging effect of cigarette smoking was more than double in those who drank fewer than... The authors conclude that the results show that smoking may be an even greater risk for bladder cancer than was previously thought. And they point to previo...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...h problems during infancy and childhood. Cigarette smoking has been associated with low birth weight in a number of previous studies, and women are advised not to smoke during pregnancy. In general, the women who smoked during the entire pregnancy bore children with a mean reduction in birth weight of 13.3 o...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

...iscounted prices. Glaxo has also been conducting smoking cessation camps all over Mumbai. Glaxo has also set up a helpline in order to quit smoking. Glaxo had targeted 50,000 patients for its first year with Zyban. It has already crossed the target of 10,000 patients. It had also sponsored the academic gra...

Smoking stripes longevity

...e expectancy from a major study of the impact of// smoking carried out by leading cancer expert Professor Gar... relies on averages, assumes the health effects of smoking are evenly spread throughout a smoker's lifetime and postulates that the number of ciagrettes smoked...

The negative advancement

...ut their history of sun exposure, sunbed usage and smoking history. Overall, people who reported having any use of tanning lamps were 2.5 times more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma and 1.5 times more likely to develop basal cell carcinoma than those who did not use tanning lamps....

Why skin sags

...ermatologists, published in The Lancet, shows that smoking actuates the genes responsible for a skin enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin.// Collagen is the main structural protein of the skin and maintains the elasticity of the skin. When this starts to deteriorate, skin begins to sag and wrinkle. ...

Cut your puff's

It is well perceived that smoking accelerates the risk of heart disease, but now researchers say that every cigarette has the inherent capacity for the development of a heart attack.This is because each cigarette appears to have a startling - and almost immediate impact on the cardio...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...at tiotropium may be the only treatment other than smoking cessation capable of reversing the symptoms of COPD. These latest findings are further evidence of the drug’s potential for treatment of the condition. Dr Walter Vincken and colleagues from the Academic Hospital University of Brussels, Belgium, exam...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...rated by avariety of sources including pesticides, smoking and exhaust fumes. Destroying free radicals may help fight cancer, heart disease and stroke, researchers believe. Spices come from the bark, stem and seeds of plants. Both have been used for thousands of years to flavour foods and treat illness. Now...

Kidney cancer on the rise

...Hospital in Birmingham and a kidney cancer expert, smoking is believed to be one of the main risk factors for the disease, accounting for 30 to 40 per cent of cases. Other risk factors include obesity and high blood pressure, which may explain the continued rise of the disease despite a decline in the number...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...rated by avariety of sources including pesticides, smoking and exhaust fumes. Destroying free radicals may help fight cancer, heart disease and stroke, researchers believe. Spices come from the bark, stem and seeds of plants. Both have been used for thousands of years to flavour foods and treat illness. Now...

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