Tobacco seriously harms health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), kill further of half of the people who consume it and, every year, More than eight million people die in the world because of it.. Some data that shows that it is not just any problem.
And in addition to cancer, tobacco causes loss of smell, taste and appetite. In fact, smokers have twice the risk of heart disease, such as myocardial infarction, and four times the risk of die because of these.
Problems in women and men
As a general rule, it also turns nails yellow, causes oral problems, wrinkles the skin and can accelerate hair loss. Now, in women It causes early menopause, poor circulation and complications with pregnancy and childbirth.
In menis associated with infertility problems and erectile dysfunction. As if that were not enough, it seriously damages the immune system and patients with cholesterol or diabetes, inter alia. Now, a group of researchers from the University of Leicester has analyzed human bone remains and has discovered something new after death.
The big news
It is about the metabolic risk that this product leaves in the human cortical bone – the tissue that makes up the outer layer of bones and provides bone strength-, which is still traceable after long periods of time.
For this, the remains of 177 adult individuals from St James’s Garden Cemetery in London’s Euston, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries; as well as those of 146 other individuals from a rural church cemetery at Barton-upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, all of whom lived before the introduction of tobacco into Europe (1150-1500 AD) and also after (1500-1855 AD).
Future
“Our research – published in the scientific journal Science Advances – shows that there are significant differences in the molecular characteristics contained in the bones of consumers and non-consumers of tobacco in the past. This potentially shows that we can see the impact that tobacco consumption has on the structure of our skeleton,” explained Dr. Sarah Inskipone of the researchers of the study.
After revealing the differences between tobacco users and non-tobacco users of the past, experts hope, in both the short and long term, to be able to understand better historical pathological and health conditions. Yes, included diseases associated with tobacco use.
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