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Another consequence of passive smoking: risk for Alzheimer’s

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

pasivoTodos know what snuff is harmful to people who smoke with numerous pathologies, lung cancers and pharmaceutical expenditure that produces it, but slowly people are aware of is that being a passive smoker also has consequences as for example, that the fetus may suffer from a pregnant woman throughout their development.

The last illness so that we can now get to suffer if we are passive smokers is Alzheimer’s, something we have to check in a study conducted in England on a sample of 5,000 people all passive smokers, who Several tests were performed to verify their neurological memory and other cognitive abilities.

Study researchers concluded that people who smoke in the form of snuff from his life but do not smoke are more likely to suffer some cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer’s and while not exactly know the causes of this relationship snuff-points to Alzheimer’s that cigarette smoke may exert an oxidative effect, inflammatory about our brain to deteriorate.