Risk Factors for Heart Disease~Smoking
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Effects of Smoking : How Does Smoking Increase Heart Disease?
Cigarette smoke is one of the primary causes of heart disease in the United States, and it is particularly risky when it is present in combination with other risk factors. Find out how the odds of getting heart disease increase by smoking with help from a pulmonary disease research expert in this free video on the effects of smoking.
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How does smoking cause heart disease?I've heard that smoking causes heart disease. I understand lung cancer is caused by mutations the genetic code of structures such as the alveoli, but I'm not too clear on how smoking may contribute to heart disease. Of course, as a stimulant that taxes the heart and lungs, nicotine may not exactly be the most healthful thing affecting the cardiovascular system, but no one blames caffeine for their cardiovascular maladies. What's the deal with smokes and heart disease?
Heather, R.N.
It leads mostly to atherosclerosis (thickening of the arteries), plaque buildup, and thickened blood. All of which can contribute to cardivascular disease.
fanny
Wow!
correrafan
Primarily, it suffocates all of your tissues for lack of oxygen, because carbon monoxide clings more tenaciously to hemoglobin than oxygen does, for some reason. Also, it causes inflammation of your tissues due to irritation and from immune suppression. Inflammation of coronary arteries leads to the build-up of fatty plaques as the body tries to protect itself from the irritant. When arteries are narrowed enough, the heart works harder and harder to provide oxygen to your tissues, and when they get narrow enough, heart attack, and death...
Rosie
it constricts your arteries and veins, robs your whole system of oxygen, it's full of poisons.... go to american heart association for a full in depth look at it
helen
When you smoke your blood takes carbon monoxide into it. ( a similar situation would be to get into your car and put the exaust pipe in through the window! ) It is not the nicotine that is the killer but the CO. When you sleep your body renews its self. BUT if theres CO in your blood however much you rest your heart will not. It will be working super hard to rid your body of that poisionous CO, pumping so hard to get it out when it should be resting, So if you smoke for a long time just think of all the extra work your heart will have to do.then think hy it may fail 20-40 yrs down the line!
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