Women smokers at increased lung disease risk than men
Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): Women who smoke a lot are at an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disabling breathing disorder including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, according to the January issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.
COPD often blocks airflow through the lungs, leading to various respiratory problems.
The symptoms pursuing COPD include persistent cough, increased mucus production, shortness of breath and frequent colds. The disease develops gradually, and is realized only when it reaches in the advanced stages.
Statistics have shown that death rate in women due to COPD increased at a much faster rate between 1980 and 2000, and the number exceeded men in 2000.
A recent study found that women with COPD have more breathlessness, higher rates of depression and lower quality of life than men with the disease.
Increased female COPD rates aptly show the increasing number of female smokers since the 1940s, when advertisers began endorsing smoking as a symbol of independent women.
COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the America and can be alleviated only by not smoking. It cuts down the loss of lung function and also reduces the death rate by nearly half. (ANI)
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Women body is much sensitive and sole then the body of men and so its natural that they will surely bear more and sooner bad effects then men. Smoking is an open invitation to death. It has been a forever harmful activity that will harm will in every way you use it.
The only method to be safe from it is to quite smoking and live a smoke free life for the benefit of self and others.
There is no other way that one can escape the damages caused by smoking on a human body.