Thursday, December 8, 2011

The effect of smoking on lung-like cystic fibrosis

The effect of smoking on lung-like cystic fibrosishttp://fjordlord.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/smoking-cigarette1-1.jpg
Show that the impact of smoking on the lungs similar to the impact of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease affecting the lung and other organs in the body.

  The site said: "Health Day News," the U.S. that a group of American researchers discovered that just like cystic fibrosis, smoking leads to the production of sticky mucous to cause a dry cough and inflammation.

  The researchers concluded that treatment of cystic fibrosis can be used to treat diseases associated with smoking and vice versa.

  The researchers found that cigarette smoke reduces the amount of fluid that covers the cells of the lungs.

  It is noteworthy that cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease caused by a deficit in the work of glands exocrine, affecting much of the many functions in the body, the disease interferes with the movement of salts and water cells in the lungs, becomes attached bacteria in a substance mucous thick results in infections deadly.

  There is no cure for cystic fibrosis, and many patients die in the thirties by the failure of lung function.

The researcher said, "Robert Taran" from the University of California, "We hope that the study shed light on the importance of hydration of the airway on the health of the lungs that helps to reach a road map for devising new treatments for lung disease caused by smoking."

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