As for the smoker where the wrinkle is many risk of the lung disease large

As for the smoker where the wrinkle is many risk of the lung disease large


　The middle to elderly-aged smoker where the wrinkle is many in the face that the chronic blockade characteristic lung disease (COPD) that the possibility of catching they are 5 times says it was found in comparison with the smoker where the wrinkle is little. As for the English royalty Devon & this research by Bipen Patel doctor of the Exeter hospital, it was published to the medical magazine “Thorax” online edition June 14th number.

　As for COPD, in the chronic lung disease of the progression which includes the emphysema and the bronchitis, in the United States approximately 1,350 ten thousand people contract a disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that by 2020 this disease reaches death cause 3rd rank of the world. It was found, that smoking is the main dangerous factor of COPD, as for the smoker from the fact that it is known that aging of the skin is quick, Patel when the common sensitivity for the wrinkle of COPD and the skin exists, raised hypothesis.

　The research group 68 examples of the COPD patient (45.6%) analyzing the data of 149 examples of the middle to elderly-aged smoker and the original smoker who are included. Completely it is not or, only you could see the wrinkle of the face a little in 83% of the subject, but you could see many wrinkles in 17%. The person where the wrinkle is many in comparison with the person where the wrinkle is little, says that strength and function of the lung were low significantly. In addition, as for the person where the wrinkle is many, at 5 times that of the person where COPD risk does not have the wrinkle, furthermore as for risk of the grave emphysema they were 3 times.

　The american lung association (ALA) Norman Edelman doctor as a result concerning “biologically is a persuasive power”, that while doing, “perhaps, in education of the patient the usefulness, but the lung disease is inspected, if simple breath inspection is done, being sufficient, it is not necessary to look at the wrinkle”, that you express, you have shown suspicious attitude concerning leading a some clinical meaning from this research.

　Mechanism concerning the connection of COPD and the wrinkle is not recognized, but that you think whether Patel are not be inherited ones. “Elastic organization of the lung and the skin (the collagen and elastin etc) also the possibility of being something due to loss it is, but supporting is not obtained,” that Patel calls. As for Edelman, rather than saying, that this knowledge brings the profit to the patient directly, when repeating future research, not to be the lung to use the skin as the model it is possible you have expressed that usefulness probably will be large in the point such that.