Smoking and skin pathology

Smoking leads to many diseases with a fatal outcome. Man is able to avoid it. Every year on the planet Earth is dying from smoking 3 million.

Smoking is associated with the appearance and progression of diseases such as lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, stroke, when the death may occur suddenly, and many other diseases.

The results of smoking, which appear on the skin have been studied less thoroughly. Despite the fact that the skin disease, when compared with the above diseases, not so sinister, yet they exist and lead to very sad consequences. Data on the effects of tobacco on the skin and more scientists are needed because it is useful to explain the reasons for the need to quit the habit and promote healthy life style. Perhaps this is what will stop smoking, which looks so much more than the correct operation of the internal organs.


The role of smoking in the development of psoriasis

 

Despite the fact that a direct link between psoriasis and smoking has not been proved, though there is some interdependence.

According to statistics, the percentage of smokers among patients with psoriasis is 58 percent, more than half!

Some scientists have not established the fact of the relationship between these two factors. However, they noted that psoriasis is associated with alcohol consumption. Besides the fact has been established with respect to women's smoking - women who have this bad habit are at risk of psoriasis was 3.3 times greater.

The study of this problem revealed a link between smoking and psoriasis, not only at the time of the disease, but in the past. Also found that the more cigarettes smoked, the more likely to get, especially if more than 20 cigarettes. It appears that the relationship between disease and smoking is that smoking affects the immune system is not positive, but the nature of psoriasis probably lies in the violation of a protective system.

Palmoplantar psoriasis

Most experts consider hand-foot version, as a form of psoriasis, but there are scientists who isolated it in an independent disease. As studies have shown that 80 percent of the carriers hand-foot psoriasis smoked at the time of illness. The difference in the risk of contracting between smoking and nonsmoking man is huge. Sounded results were confirmed by a small number of papers on this topic. The causes of psoriasis are not yet fully understood and accurately determine the impact of smoking is impossible. One of the key roles played by neutrophils in which the number of smoking increases by several times.