Latest News:  

English>>Sci-Tech

Chinese scientists find smoking-dementia link

(Xinhua)

17:02, February 21, 2013

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- A research team led by Chinese scientists has linked smoking to higher risks of dementia, Health News, a national health-centric newspaper, reported on Thursday.

The research results, published in the British Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal, concluded that Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), including smoking and passive smoking, should be considered an important risk factor for severe dementia syndromes.

The research was conducted by a team with Anhui Medical University, in cooperation with British and American scientists.

The team interviewed 5,921 people aged 60 and above in five provinces in China from 2007 to 2009. They used scientific models to calculate the relative risk of moderate and severe dementia among participants exposed to ETS.

According to the results, 626 participants, or 10.6 percent of the total, had severe dementia, and 869, or 14.7 percent, moderate syndromes.

Among them, 292 smokers or passive smokers, or 13.6 percent of participants exposed to ETS, had severe dementia, an incidence rate much higher than the 8.9 percent among the non-exposed group.

The study further found that, among those exposed to ETS for over 40 years, the risk of severe dementia escalated to 19.3 percent, showing a positive association between intensity of ETS exposure and rate of severe dementia.

The study did not find a correlation between ETS exposure and moderate dementia.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine is an international peer-reviewed journal covering developments in occupational and environmental health worldwide.

We Recommend:

Our generation: Chinese elites through lens

Chinese rich women learning etiquette

Beauties at Beijing Film Academy enrollment site

Slacklife, China’s No.1 slackliner

Wedding of Lisu people in Sichuan, China

China's weekly story (2013.2.8-2.15)

Impressive moments of Beijing since 1950s

Unforgettable moments during Spring Festival

Exploring top private clubs in China

Email|Print|Comments(Editor:WangXin、Wang Jinxue)

Leave your comment0 comments

  1. Name

  

Selections for you


  1. China's 14th escort fleet sails for Somali

  2. Female soldiers training in cold winter

  3. Pakistanis mourn for victims of deadly blast in Quetta

  4. Impressive moments of Beijing since 1950s

  5. Exploring top private clubs in China

  6. Employees punished to run half-naked

  7. A rare sighting

  8. Plastic princess

  9. Liquor makers fined for price monopoly

  10. Keeping the brand full of beans

Most Popular

Opinions

  1. Keeping the brand full of beans
  2. Brighter outlook for property companies
  3. Lantern Festival losing its luster
  4. How to build new type ties between big powers?
  5. Diplomacy to help China become global power
  6. Commentary: China sees Africa as true friend
  7. Mind your manners
  8. Football penalties 'too soft'
  9. Juvenile crime rules 'hard to follow'
  10. CCTV's Spring Festival Gala: Glory days gone

What’s happening in China

Police dog on duty for first time in Chengdu

  1. Dragons dance firestorm festival
  2. Young job seekers expect more than just wages
  3. Lack of skilled staff hindering growth
  4. Companies struggle to find, keep workers
  5. City experiences sudden baby boom