Study finds warnings signs in blood of those exposed to smoke
Jump to full article: HealthDay [HealthScout], 2007-02-13
Author: Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
Intro: Breathing secondhand smoke appears to increase levels of two warning signs for heart disease, fibrinogen and homocysteine, British researchers report.
"The size of these effects were between about one-third and one-half that seen in relation to active smoking, which seems disproportionately large, but fits with previous studies that have shown similar effects in relation to disease risk," said lead researcher Andrea Venn, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham's Division of Epidemiology and Public Health.
The findings are published in the Feb. 13 edition of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. . . .
In other research involving secondhand smoke, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute has awarded an $8.7 million grant to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and other hospitals to look at the lingering effects of secondhand smoke among nonsmoking fight attendants and other service industry workers.
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