Showing posts with label cardiovascular disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardiovascular disease. Show all posts

Effects of Smokeless Tobacco

By sulthan on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Smokeless Tobacco

What Is Smokeless Tobacco?
Smokeless tobacco which is too known as “Chewing Tobacco”.  It is made of tobacco, nicotine, sweeteners and additional chemicals. It is a myth that chewing is not as injurious as smoking. Chewing tobacco can also be injurious for your health and fitness.

The effects of Smokeless Tobacco include:
  • Increased heart rate cause through nicotine in the blood stream releasing hormones (such as adrenaline).
  • Increased blood pressure caused through nicotine in the blood stream. Can cause unequal heartbeats as well.
  • Chewing tobacco, too called smokeless tobacco or snuff, contains over 25 carcinogens or cancer causing agents.
  • Users of chewing tobacco are at an amplified risk of cardiovascular disease. Nicotine constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure and reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood stream, all of which has an result on the heart and can contribute to cardiovascular disease.
Main harmful effects of Smokeless Tobacco are:
  • Erodes Tooth
  • Lung Cancer
  • Oral Cancer
  • Damage to tongue, jaw and lips
  • Bad Breadth
  • Gum slump
  • Early Decay of Tooth

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Fruits, veggies may weaken effect of heart gene

By sulthan on Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Effect of heart gene

Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may mitigate the special effects of a gene linked to heart disease, Canadian researchers say the investigate article in Tuesday's issue of the journal PloS Medicine was one of the largest gene-diet interaction studies for cardiovascular disease.

The researchers analyzed the diets of more than 27,000 individuals from five ethnicities European, South Asian, Chinese, Latin American and Arab to look at how diet and the 9p21 gene were connected in two separate studies.

"We know that 9p21 genetic variants augment the risk of heart disease for those that carry it," said Dr.Jamie Engert, joint principal researcher of the study, who is a researcher in cardiovascular diseases at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.
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