Each cigarette a woman smokes increases her chance of getting cancer, so recent research highlights.
Smoking clearly increases the risk of women having a stroke, yet upto now there had not been minimal data regarding the actual dose.
The study, overseen by Dr Cole, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, involved interviewing 466 women who had had a stroke, as well as 604 who had not.
They were aged between 15 and 49, smokers, non-smokers as well as ex- smokers. Any smoking whatsover doubles the possibility of having a stroke. This risk is 2.2 times more so for women who smoke between 1-10 cigarettes each day, 4.3 times more so for women who smoke 21-39 cigarettes each day and 9.1 times more so for those who smoke two packets of cigarettes per day, when compared with non-smokers.
Moreover, this research study highlights the benefit of quitting smoking . The risk of stroke risk decreased just 30 days after a woman stops smoking and normalised in approximately two years.
Smoking of course increases the likelihood of stroke and heart disease as it damages blood vessels, making blood clots more likely.
There are four main reasons as to why smoking causes strokes. Smoking upsets cells lining the blood vessels. It heightens blood fibrogen (a protein produced by the liver) levels, which renders blood more likely to clot. Smoking also increases the stickiness of platelets, those cells that form blood clots. Additionally, smoking reduces the body's natural clot-dissolving ability.
Furthermore, young women ought to be highly concerned that smoking also causes premature aging.
