Sentences with phrase «of cigarette smoke exposure»

The enhanced susceptibility to viral infection caused by E-cig exposure is consistent with the effects of cigarette smoke exposure on influenza infection, including enhanced viral titer at days 3 — 4 and impaired resolution of infection [30, 31].

However, no mutations were found in the KRAS gene itself or the tumor suppressor genes during the 15 - month period of cigarette smoke exposure.

Not exact matches

There is one death per 100,000 hours of exposure to smoking cigarettes.

Free Radical Protection: The high levels of antioxidants in Cacao Powder can help protect the body from free radicals such as cigarette smoke, sun exposure, and pollution which may lead to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Studies show that a baby's risk of SIDS rises with each additional smoker in the household, with the number of cigarettes smoked around her each day, and with the length of her exposure to cigarette smoke.

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke was recorded as the number of hours (during the previous 24 hours) spent in a room with someone smoking cigarettes.

Relation of infant feeding practices, cigarette smoke exposure, and group child care to the onset and duration of otitis media with effusion in the first two years of life.

Information on socioeconomic background, maternal diseases and obstetric history, parity, gender, fetal exposure to alcohol (at least 2 drinks a week during the entire pregnancy) and cigarette smoking (at least 1 cigarette a day during the last trimester), type and duration of breastfeeding, and maternal intelligence (Raven Progressive Matrices) was obtained through questionnaires administered in person after delivery and at 13 months.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Recent studies have explored how prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke may result in an increased risk of SIDS.

Under the New York Clean Indoor Air Law, New Yorkers have been successfully protected from the risks of secondhand exposure to combustible cigarette smoke when we work, shop, and dine at a restaurant.

Several genetic and environmental factors, including previous infection with Epstein Barr virus, exposure to cigarette smoke, and low vitamin D levels have all been associated with a heightened risk of MS.

The amount of nicotine in the rats» blood after exposure to cigarette smoke was similar to the amount in blood after humans have smoked one cigarette, confirming that the exposure conditions were relevant to the real world.

One study of e-cigarettes was conducted to resemble a smoky bar: the researchers found that markers of nicotine in nonsmokers who sat nearby was similar for both cigarette smoke and e-cigarette aerosol exposure.

«We know that exposure to smoking cues such as visual depictions of cigarettes, ashtrays, matches, lighters, and smoke heightens smokers» urge to smoke a cigarette, and decreases former smokers» confidence in their ability to refrain from smoking a cigarette,» said Dr. Maloney.

Conklin also said that chronic exposures to smokeless tobacco extracts, mainstream cigarette smoke, acrolein, or e-cigarette aerosol enhanced atherosclerotic lesion formation in a mouse model of atherosclerosis.

The main cause is assumed to be a reaction of lung tissue to chronic exposure to toxic gases or particles such as from cigarette smoke.

They gathered information on family history of ear infections, cigarette smoke exposure and breast versus formula feeding.

Reduced - nicotine cigarettes were beneficial in reducing nicotine exposure and dependence, and also the number of cigarettes smoked per day, when compared with standard - nicotine cigarettes in a six - week study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The FDA has funded research examining the impact of lower nicotine cigarettes on smoking behavior and also toxin exposure.

This is the first study to examine the effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine, marijuana, and cigarette smoking on human placental development.

As lead author Laura Rupprecht said, «The findings are important in the context of potential product standards requiring very low nicotine levels in cigarettes, as they indicate that low nicotine levels may still reduce body weight, possibly motivating continued use and maintaining exposure to harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke.»

«Exposure to cadmium can occur due to poor disposal of industrial or electronics waste, and also through cigarette smoke and ingestion of contaminated food.

They suggested that the melanoma and lung cancer patients had done best because those cancers have lots of mutations, a consequence of exposure to sunlight and cigarette smoke.

Bladder cancer has been linked to exposure to various types of toxic substances such as cigarette smoke and industrial chemicals.

Owing to the large effect of tobacco smoke at low doses, exposure to second - hand smoke in the reference group (never smokers) might lead to underestimation of the relative risk for one and 20 cigarettes per day and consequently dilute the percentage effect of one compared with 20 cigarettes per day.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

May 6, 2011 Cigarette smoking and arsenic exposure: a deadly combination Arsenic exposure and smoking each elevate the risk of disease.

Both cigarette smoke and nicotine have been shown to inhibit pulmonary T cell responses, including secretion of IFNγ, and enhance susceptibility to virus infection [31, 33], which suggests that exposure to nicotine, such as in E-cigs, may exhibit immunosuppressive effects.

«This study suggests that smokers who completely switch to e-cigarettes and stop smoking tobacco cigarettes may significantly reduce their exposure to many cancer - causing chemicals,» said lead author Maciej Goniewicz, an assistant professor of oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.

Exposure to cigarette smoke doubles your risk of developing macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Exposure to cigarette and other types of smoke also put people at increased risk for throat cancer.

It processes literally everything that passes through our body, and it's safe to say that most of us probably have a chemical overload — toxins enter our body from numerous places in our environment (pollution, car fumes, cigarette smoke, sun exposure), food (additives, chemicals, artificial flavours, sweeteners, food colouring) and body care products (sodium lauryl sulfate, and too many others to name!)

The risks are linked to the quantity of cigarettes that are smoked — the data indicates that exposure to about 10 or more cigarettes per day is enough for increased risk so it's vital for men to cut down.

There are multiple sources and forms of stress from physical (exercise, lack or sleep), mental (financial worries), chemical (exposure to cigarette smoke), emotional (fight with a significant other) to infectious (lime disease).

Living together with a cigarette smoker increases the chance of dying from lung cancer and heart disease, and in children smoke exposure increase the severity of the intensity of asthma attacks and leads to in excess of 750,000 middle ear infections, as reported by the American Cancer Society.

Even minimal exposure carries the same risk as smoking a half a pack of cigarettes a day.

To slow the effects of aging, it is important to avoid toxic exposure from substances like cigarette smoke and pollution when possible and to cleanse the body periodically to lessen its toxic load.

These include stress, lack of exercise, genetic makeup of the body and exposure to various toxins (like second hand cigarette smoke).

These free radicals come from exposure to pollution, cigarette smoke, and radiation, and are the enemies that assault our skin every day, tearing it down and leading to the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Increased conversion to estrogen may be due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver enzymes).

According to Mark Sircus, in Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, a deficiency of magnesium increases free radical generation in the body and «causes glutathione loss, which is not affordable because glutathione helps to defend the body against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation, cancer chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about everything else.»

Metallothionine is increased aggressively by exposure to the carcinogenic cadmium in cigarette smoke, probably contributing to the addictive properties of the nicotine, therein.

Exposure to cigarette smoke, environmental pollutants, and the UV light from the sun all decrease the amount of vitamin C in the skin.

There are, however, other factors that can increase the production of free radicals, and many of them go hand in hand with modern day life: unhealthy food, exposure to pesticides, herbicides, cleaning chemicals, and cigarette smoke, and physical and emotional stress.

There are many types of cancer and many possible causes of cancer (chemicals in our environment — especially cigarette smoke, sun exposure, assorted viruses and infections).

The role of exposure to cigarette smoke in bladder cancer risk in dogs requires more study, but it would be best to limit exposure to smoke as it can cause other disease in dogs too.

Do not smoke marijuana near your pets The dangers of second hand smoke exposure from tobacco are very well - known, and owners, in general, do avoid smoking cigarettes when their pets are present.

Chronic exposure to inhaled irritants (including cigarette smoke) may be a cause of bronchitis in the dog.

Other causes include diets low in Vitamin A & E, excessive use of grooming perches, lack of exercise, and exposure to cigarette smoke.