Contents of a cigarette What are the effects of smoking on the lungs? Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer caused by smoking. More than 80% of cases of lung cancer are due to smoking. Cigarette smoke contains many chemicals that interfere with the body's method of filtering air and cleaning out the lungs. The smoke irritates the lungs and leads to overproduction of mucus. It also paralyses the
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connected to lung disorders and other heart disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known to many as COPD (Bhattacharya, 2004; Hadjiliadis, 2013; Kavanagh, 2013; Leader, 2014; Malcolm et al., 2013; Moore, 2012; Sovari, 2014). COPD associated Cor Pulmonale accounts for the majority of all Cor Pulmonale cases, about 80%-90% (Kavanagh, 2013; Leader, 2014). There are many causes of Cor Pulmonale, such as hypertension, and pulmonary embolism, and it affects multiple body systems, like the
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all people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will also suffer depression and one in five people with mild COPD will be depressed at some stage.5 These co-morbidities can lead to significantly poorer health outcomes and reduced quality of life.6 (Figure 1) Higher levels of depression than in the general population can also be seen in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. This relationship is usually a graded one, in that the more severe the disease the more severe the depression
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A cross-sectional study of secondhand smoke exposure and respiratory symptoms in non-current smokers in the U.S. trucking industry: SHS exposure and respiratory symptoms The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Laden, Francine, Yueh-Hsiu Chiu, Eric Garshick, S Katharine Hammond, and Jaime E Hart. 2013. A cross-sectional study of secondhand smoke exposure and respiratory symptoms in noncurrent
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease also referred to as COPD is the name that identifies a group of lung diseases. These diseases consist of bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and refractory asthma. An individual can have COPD for years and not know it. When the disease is in the early stages the symptoms are not completely
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Asthma Hanna Bazzi Nsg 222 Henry Ford Community College Definition Bronchial asthma is a chronic disorder of the airway obstruction, bronchial hyper responsiveness, and airway inflammation that are usually reversible. It is a chronic lung disease. According to 2005 data, an estimated 22.2 million American (3.8million children younger than 18 years of age) had an asthma attack (Porth and Matfin, 2009 pg), (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2010). Although the prevalence rates for asthma have increased over
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Obstructive Pulmunary Disease A. Hallmarks 1.Airflow limitation 2.Irreversible type disease: (COPD) Emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis,bronchiolitis 3.Reversible Type:Hyper-reactive airway disease, Athma, chronic inflammatory disease B.Airflow reduction REduced bronchiole Tone elevated air trapping FEV1 is reduced Emphysema: low elastic recoil of bronchiles, low air flow, low airway tone, pressure drive of air is low Asthma:Bronchoconstriction with higher
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chemicals) in the cigarette or tobacco. It will also depend on the number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day, the age when the person first started to smoke, and the number of years that the person has been smoking for. According to recent studies, every year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe die from medical complications caused by smoking. Aside from the stench it leaves on someone's clothes, breath, and hair,(I think this is a not a good argument) it also has other complications
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Urticaria : definition/ diagnostic criteria Urticaria is described by the quick manifestation of wheals and this may be accompanied by angioedema. A wheal has three typical features which comprises: (i) a centrally located swelling of varying size, almost always encircled by reflex erythema; (ii) accompanied with itching or burning and; (iii) its transient nature, where the skin returns to normal appearance within 1 hour to 24 hours. (1) The transient nature of urticaria is an important characteristic
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What are asthma attacks? “Asthma attacks are when the muscles around your airways are being tightened. During an asthma attack the lining of your airways swell up and in the process, it also reproduces a thick mucus. While this begins to happen, you will begin to feel some of the following symptoms such as difficulty breathing, chest tightness, severe wheezing and many more“. Those are some of the obvious signs that you are experiencing an asthma attack. Internationally, asthma attacks have been
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