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25/01/2013
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New studies also show that the risk of death associated with cigarette before higher among men, is now equal for both sexes
Two large studies published on Thursday showed that men and women who smoke die on average ten years earlier than the rest of the population. Moreover, according to these studies, the likelihood of smokers have died from lung cancer or other smoking-related diseases, which previously was higher among men, is now equal for both sexes. These works, made by American and Canadian experts, are present in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
One of these studies, coordinated by Prabhat Jha, a researcher at the Centre for Global Health Research in Toronto, Canada, examined the history of 113,752 women and 88,496 male smokers or former smokers who had more than 25 years. Were taken into account the records of participants from 1997 to 2004. According to the study, smoking takes ten years of the life of an adult smoker. However, of those years can be recovered if the individual leaves the addiction: the survey revealed that quitting smoking between 30 and 40 years can return up to nine years of life a smoker. If addiction is abandoned between 40 and 50 years old, are up to six years of life recovered and, after 65 years, four years.
"Quitting smoking before 40 can return all the lost years with the cigarette. But that does not mean it is safe for a person that age to smoke and then abandon the habit, since the risk of death remains higher than the general population, "says Jha. The results also showed that smokers 25-79 years of age are three times more likely to die than people of the same age-Feixa than yours. Moreover, people who have never smoked are twice as likely to reach 80 years of age than smokers.
Gender equality - Another poll in the British journal was made by the American Cancer Society. The researchers assessed 2.2 million adults over the age of 55 and also the record of deaths associated with cigarette in three periods in the last 50 years (from 1959 to 1965, 1982 to 1988, and from 2000 to 2010). They found that, before the risk of deaths from diseases associated with smoking was higher among men, he began to be equal for both sexes.
"From the time that women go to smoke like men, the risk of death also becomes equal," says Michael Thun, the study coordinator. According to the researcher, the risk of death from lung cancer among women smokers has increased 23 times from 1960 here. "It is necessary to spend at least 50 years to really start an epidemic, and we are beginning to see the impact of the increase in smoking in the number of illnesses and deaths among women just now," says the author.
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