SMOKING AND ALZHEIMER

[maria angelica sassone]

Smoking promotes Alzheimer's disease
(ANI): After checking how to have designed each of these studies, the quality of the journals that published the results, the time of publication and the degree of affiliation of the authors of such studies to the industry snuff, the team This new research also found an association between the degree of membership of this industry and the findings of individual studies. Studies conducted in affiliation with the tobacco industry, suggested that smoking protected against the development of Alzheimer's disease, while independent studies showed that smoking increases the risk of developing the disease.


"For many years, published studies and popular media have perpetuated the myth that smoking has a protective effect against developing Alzheimer's disease. The impact of this disease on quality of life and generates health costs continue to increase. It is therefore essential to understand better its causes, in particular the role it plays in her smoking, "researcher Janine K. complaint Cataldo, School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead author of this review study.

It is estimated that the United States alone there are 5.3 million people currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and that number will increase rapidly as you age the generation of "baby boom." This disease also triples the health costs of people 65 and older.

Cataldo's team examined 43 studies published from 1984 to 2007. The authors of a quarter of the studies had some degree of membership of the snuff industry.

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Janine K. Cataldo. (Photo: UCSF)
Previous reviews of the association between smoking and Alzheimer's disease was not monitored the study design and the degree of affiliation of the author to snuff industry. To determine whether the study's authors had connections with the tobacco industry, Cataldo's team analyzed 877 previously secret documents of the industry.

The researchers inquired about the source of the money received by the authors of the studies, including financing in the time of the study or earlier, labor wages, payments for consulting work, and also made inquiries about the collaboration of the authors in a study that had among its authors to anyone who had received income from the tobacco industry at the time of publication of the study or earlier during the 10 years immediately after publication.

[Myriel RAouine]