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Are you a smoker? Your child may have greater risk of COPD

Moms and dads who are smokers should now watch out their habit. A study shows that children of smokers are at a greater risk of developing chronic obsessive pulmonary disease (COPD).

By: Agencies   | | Published: August 16, 2018 3:58 pm
Tags: children healthcare  Dangers of smoking  World COPD Day  
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Are you a chain smoker? Besides harming your own life, you may also be exposing your kids to second-hand smoke, which can increase their risk of death due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood, researchers have warned. Also Read - Beware! Smoking daily can put you at risk of fatal stroke

The study found that those who have lived with a regular smoker throughout their childhood have 31 per cent higher mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Also Read - Not able to quit smoking? Here's what cigarettes do to your body



While second-hand smoke exposure (10 or more hours/week) as an adult was associated with a 9 per cent higher risk of all-cause mortality, a 27 per cent higher risk of death from ischemic heart disease, a 23 per cent higher risk of death from stroke, and a 42 per cent higher risk of death from COPD. Also Read - Kids turning hypertensive: Get your child screened for early detection

Second-hand smoke is known to have diverse effects on the lung and vascular systems in both children and adults.

“This is the first study to identify an association between childhood exposure to second-hand smoke and death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in middle age and beyond,” said W. Ryan Diver, epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in the US.

“The results also suggest that adult second-hand smoke exposure increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease death. Overall, our findings provide further evidence for reducing second-hand smoke exposure throughout life,” he added.

For the study, the team included 70,900 never-smoking men and women aged 50-74 years who were followed for 22 years.

The increase in COPD mortality corresponds to about seven additional deaths per year per 100,000 never-smoking participants, Diver said.

Although the study counted only deaths, the increase in fatal COPD implies that living with a smoker during childhood could also increase the risk of non-fatal COPD, the researchers said.

Source: IANS
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Published : August 16, 2018 3:58 pm
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