Sentences with phrase «risk lung illnesses»

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Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

Even small amounts of powder can irritate a baby's tiny lungs — especially if the baby is at high risk for respiratory illness.

Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung, patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of patients.

The risk of cardiovascular related illness and death is known to decrease after smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease, 40 reducing dramatically over the first three years, 41 but reducing the risk of developing lung cancer after smoking cessation generally takes longer.9 41 This review has found evidence that after lung cancer has been diagnosed, reductions in risk of developing a second primary or recurrence were associated with quitting within seven years, suggesting that, even at this stage, the prognostic outlook can be improved by smoking cessation.

Also at risk are overweight pets, or those with concurrent illnesses, espeically heart or lung in origin.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

If a doctor tells you that you better quit smoking, otherwise your risks of severe lung illness will strongly increase, would you wait until you're in the IC before you stop smoking?

Therefore, while using smokeless tobacco does not come with the terrible health risks associated with tobacco smoking, such as lung cancer and respiratory illnesses, it does come with greater risk than complete non-usage of tobacco.

«No one should use the study's results as an excuse to keep smoking, which is also a risk factor for lung disease, heart disease, strokes and many types of cancer,» explains Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance.

Smokers have an increased risk for many illnesses such as heart disease, lung cancer and even dental problems.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7