Impact of Cigarette Smoking On Lipid Profile among South Indian Smokers.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 4
Abstract
Tobacco smoking is one of the well known modifiable risk factors for atherosclerosis, coronary heart diseases, lung & oral cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. Tobacco is consumed in many ways such as chewing, smoking. In India, tobacco kills 8–10 lakh people each year and majority of these deaths occur in young age. An estimate says that an average of five-and-a-half minutes of life is lost for each cigarette smoked. This study was designed to demonstrate the effects of smoking on lipid profile among south Indian smokers and to identify the differences between the lipid profiles of smokers. The study group comprised of 25 males with age range between 40 and 55years and 25 age matched males as controls. The smokers in this study were those smoking 11-20 cigarette/day for last 15 years. There were no significant differences in age, height, weight and BMI between the groups. But, Heart rate (p<0.001), systolic blood pressure (p<0.001) and diastolic blood pressure (p<0.001) were significantly high in smokers when compared to controls. The total cholesterol (p<0.001), low density lipoproteins (p<0.001), very low density lipoproteins (p<0.001) and triglycerides (p<0.001) were significantly high and high density lipoproteins (p<0.001) were significantly low in smokers when compare to non smokers. The results of this study show that smokers are at much greater risk of developing atherosclerotic plaques and different heart diseases than non-smokers.
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Dwarakanath Nallapoola, Nagendra Prasad Naik Dugavanth
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