Strong Link Between Smoking and Brain Haemorrhage

There is a strong link between smoking and brain haemorrhage, which is demonstrated in a new Danish study just published in Stroke, an American medical journal.

Smokers run a substantial risk of incurring a brain haemorrhage, the most serious form of stroke, where every fourth die in three months after being hit by a haemorrhage.

That is the message from a large Danish study, which has just been published in the American medical journal Stroke. The study demonstrated a strong correlation between smoking and stroke, which according to the authors should lead to increased efforts to warn against this particular disease, for instance on cigarette packages. Around 1,000 Danes are hit every year with a stroke.

“We have been well aware that smoking increases the risk of a blood clot in the brain. But it appears now that there is an even stronger link between smoking and a brain haemorrhage, which is a much more serious disorder. Thus it appears that smoking also weakens blood vessel walls in the brain, which increases to risk of puncturing, “says senior consultant at Hvidovre Hospital Tom Olsen, who is behind the study, together with statistics officer Klaus K. Andersen from Denmark’s Technical University.

Researchers examined the relationship between smoking and the risk of either getting stroke or blood clot in the brain in almost 40,000 Danes with strokes that are a catch-all term for the two diseases. It appeared that smokers are 30 per cent more likely to be hit by the much more serious brain haemorrhage than the blood clot in the brain.

Food for thought

Scientists believe that the study should give food for thought among smokers, and also to a greater extent focus on the risk of stroke in the campaigns against smoking.

“I do not think that there are currently many people that are aware that smoking can be an entry ticket to a brain haemorrhage. Stroke is one of the major diseases that we can all be hit by. But if you smoke the risk increases considerably to incur the most serious form of stroke, the brain haemorrhage, which often mean lifelong disability – if you  are so lucky to survive, ” says Tom Olsen.

Yet another reason to consider quit smoking pills, quit smoking hypnosis or any other quit smoking method.

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