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Psoriasis now linked to smoking…
Smokers beware! After the 11 types of cancer directly linked to smoking, a team of American researchers has now confirmed that smoking increases … the risk of psoriasis. And “the more you smoke, the higher (the risk) is”.
To reach this conclusion, researchers from several major universities in Boston (United States) and Vancouver (Canada) spent 14 years monitoring over 116,000 women aged between 25 and 42, half of whom were smokers. The number of cigarettes they smoked was calculated in “packet-years”, one packet year corresponding to 20 cigarettes per day for a year.
Compared with the “non-smokers”, the risk of psoriasis was found to be 20% higher among the women in the one to ten packet-years group. An increased risk that rose as high as 60% for those in the eleven to twenty packet-years bracket and … to 100% in excess of twenty-one packet-years! In other words, the women who were hardened smokers saw their risk doubled.
“These results are a clear and figure-based incentive to stop smoking, the authors conclude. However, we should point out a certain bias: the study does not state whether any of these smokers already suffered from psoriasis before they lit their first cigarette…
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