Smoking women has higher chances of stroke with smoking spouses

The Journal of the American Heart Association reflect in a study about women smokers, whose spouses also smoked, has a higher danger of caress than those married to nonsmokers.

Study’s lead author Adnan I. Qureshi M.D., professor and director of the Cerebrovascular Program in the Zeenat Qureshi caress Research Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark said, “there is substantiation signifying that your exposure to secondhand smoke can increase your chances of getting heart disease.”

The researchers then recorded the women’s smoking and marital status and the occurrence of total stroke and ischemic stroke (a stroke caused by a blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain). Overall, 2,347 of the women were current or former smokers themselves. Of those women, 1,904 were married to smokers.

The Researchers said, “We originate that cigarette-smoking women with cigarette-smoking spouses had almost a six times higher relative risk of total stroke than cigarette-smoking women with nonsmoking spouses”.

Nonsmoking women married to smoking spouses did not have a considerably higher frequency of stroke compared to nonsmoking women with nonsmoking spouses.

However, Qureshi said smoking spouses of nonsmoking women might avoid revealing their partners to smoke.

The findings lay emphasis on that it is not just one’s own smoking that contributes to stroke risk, but also spouses smoking.

Qureshi added “If physicians are to make a real impact on falling stroke risk among their patients, they should not only address their patients’ smoking habits but also those of their spouses or partners”.