Smoking is harmful to health. A new paper by the Korean researchers in the new issue of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Neurology has added a “crime†to smoking: smoking significantly increases the risk of dementia.
Dementia is a type of progressive degenerative brain disease, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, etc., clinically characterized by memory impairment, aphasia, and loss of recognition. At present, the treatment of dementia is still a world problem.
Researchers from Seoul National University in Korea analyzed the health profile data of 46,000 men over the age of 60 in Korea between 2002 and 2013. Subjects included persistent smokers, short-term smokers (less than 4 years), long-term smokers (4 years and above), and never smokers.
The results showed that the risk of dementia in persistent smokers was 14% and 19% higher than that of long-term smokers and never smokers, respectively. Among them, persistent smokers were 18% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than never smokers; while persistent smokers were 32% and 29% more likely to suffer from vascular dementia than long-term smokers and never smokers, respectively. .
In the long run, the researchers say that smoking cessation is significantly associated with lowering the risk of dementia, so smokers should be encouraged to quit, especially those with a high risk of developing the disease.
Source: Technology Daily
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