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Smokers with wrinkles have a higher risk of getting lung cancer than those without wrinkles, a study says. Researchers, led by Bipen Patel at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, studied 149 current and former smokers in the age group of 45 to 70 from 78 families. They found that middle-aged smokers with heavily lined faces have a five times higher risk of lung disease than their un-wrinkled peers, reported the online edition of BBC News. Having wrinkles is associated with a group of conditions known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), they said. COPD is an umbrella term for a range of progressive chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and bronchitis, which block the airways and restrict oxygen flow around the body. More than a million people in the UK are thought to have COPD. The World Health Organisation estimates that COPD will become the third leading cause of death in the world by 2020. Smoking is already known to cause premature ageing of the skin. Patel said: “What this research shows is that those who are prone to COPD are also prone to wrinkles. “If there is a gene for COPD susceptibility, it may also increase the chance of someone developing wrinkles.” Patel said wrinkles could be seen as a sign that someone was at increased risk of developing COPD.
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Pretilost je opasna za pluća Pretile osobe imaju veći rizik za obolijevanje od kronične opstrukcijske plućne bolesti (KOPB), tvrde njemački znanstvenici Pretilost je loša za zdravlje, što potvrđuju i istraživači sa Sveučilišta Regensburg koji su pronašli vezu između pretilosti i kronične opstruktivne bolest pluća, a najvećem su riziku izložene osobe s viškom masnog tkiva na trbuhu. U prosjeku je kod žena s opsegom struka većim od 109 centimetara i muškaraca s opsegom struka većim od 117 centimetara rizik za KOPB bio čak 72% veći nego kod osoba s normalnim opsegom struka. S druge strane, osobe s premalom tjelesnom masom su imale 56% veći rizik za KOPB. KOPB se odnosi na povezane poremećaje koji bolesniku postupno oduzimaju dah - kronični bronhitis i/ili emfizem povezan s otežanim prolazom zraka. Bolesnik ponekad boluje i od kroničnog bronhitisa i od emfizema. Kronični bronhitis je odgovoran za 85% slučajeva KOPB-a. Ostali važni faktori rizika za KOPB su pušenje i zagađenje zraka. Prema novim nalazima koje je objavio Canadian Medical Association Journal, tjelesna aktivnost najmanje 5 puta tjedno je bila povezana s prosječno 29% manjim rizikom za KOPB. U istraživanju njemačkih znanstvenika su korišteni podaci prikupljeni tijekom 10 godina od oko 113000 osoba u dobi od 50 do 70 godina.