According to a new U.S. study that smokers with arthritis are at risk of worsening their condition more rapidly compared with non-smokers who live the same conditions.
The study, published in Annals of articular disease that 12% of smokers among the 159 people surveyed were male, appeared to have greater
cartilage loss over time and aggravation felt their pain compared with their counterparts from non-smokers.
The exposed cartilage, which is an elastic tissue elastic coating the ends of the bones, in the case of osteoarthritis gradually damage which leads to inflammation, pain and deformity in the bones.
Scientific reasons
The study multiple causes can make a major cause of smoking
The worsening of arthritis, including that smoking could be stripped of tissue oxygen and therefore may impede the process of normal cartilage repair.
She added that, since cartilage itself has no pain fibers of the pain probably comes more in smokers of the damage to other components of the inflamed joint.
The researchers used in this study, conducted over two and a half-ray examinations (MRI) to measure the extent of the damage cartilage in the knee at the beginning of research, the middle and end.
The men also rated the level of pain felt in the knee during each follow-up visit.
Additional tests
He said the study authors, led by Dr. Hariasi Secretary of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine at the University of Rochester, Minnesota, that the results of this research exciting and should be paid to conduct further tests.
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