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Spain: Smokers are twice as likely to get influenza A

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
google translated

Not only in Spain I assume.


Smokers are twice as likely to get influenza A

The National Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Smoking (CNPT), entity that groups more than 40 scientific societies and associations in the Spanish health sector, today warned that smokers are twice as likely to have the flu, both seasonal as the new influenza A/H1N1, compared with nonsmokers.

Europa Press , MADRID september 28 2009

As acknowledged in a statement today the vice president of this entity, Dr. Rodrigo Cordoba, "the snuff aggravates respiratory infections" because it weakens the natural defense mechanism of the organism, while "the physical characteristics of smoke snuff facilitate the filing of toxic particles in the last recesses of the lungs and end up affecting the pulmonary defense mechanisms of several different ways.

Numerous investigations have shown that snuff impairs mucociliary function (a kind of natural brush), which alters the cleaning of toxic particles, favoring viruses and bacteria from sticking to the walls of the bronchi, increasing the penetration of the virus inside the lungs, favoring the risk of severe pneumonia.

Similarly, affect the composition, appearance and function of cells involved in lung inflammatory processes, produces an intense inflammation within the bronchi, even when the person is not suffering apparently cough or fatigue, and "functional capacity decreases natural cell lung destroying germs.

In addition, an investigation by the Biomedical Research Center and Lung Disease Network (CIBER) recently found that smokers have altered the immune system, which helps explain why their susceptibility to a viral infection such as influenza A is greater than in the rest of the population. Therefore, "leaving the snuff is one of the most effective preventive measures to be rid both of respiratory infections in general and influenza A," warn from CNPT.

http://www.adn.es/sociedad/20090928/NWS-0969-probabilidades-fumadores-contraer-tienen-gripe.html

Los fumadores tienen doble de probabilidades de contraer gripe A

El Comit? Nacional para la Prevenci?n y Tratamiento del Tabaquismo (CNPT), entidad que agrupa a m?s de 40 sociedades cient?ficas y asociaciones del ?mbito sanitario espa?ol, advirti? hoy a los fumadores de que tienen el doble de probabilidades de padecer una gripe, tanto la estacional como la nueva gripe A/H1N1, en comparaci?n con los no fumadores.

Europa Press, MADRID |

Seg?n reconoci? hoy en un comunicado el vicepresidente de esta entidad, el doctor Rodrigo C?rdoba, "el tabaco agrava las infecciones respiratorias" porque debilita el mecanismo de defensa naturales del organismo, mientras que "las caracter?sticas f?sicas del humo de tabaco facilitan el dep?sito de las part?culas t?xicas en los ?ltimos recodos de los pulmones y terminan afectando a los mecanismos de defensa pulmonar de muy variadas maneras".

Numerosas investigaciones han demostrado que el tabaco da?a la funci?n mucociliar (una especie de cepillo natural), lo cual altera la limpieza de las part?culas t?xicas; favorece que los virus y bacterias se adhieran a las paredes de los bronquios; aumenta la penetraci?n de los virus al interior de los pulmones, favoreciendo el riesgo de neumon?as graves.

Del mismo modo, afecta a al composici?n, apariencia y funci?n de las c?lulas que intervienen en los procesos inflamatorios pulmonares; produce una intensa inflamaci?n en el interior de los bronquios incluso cuando la persona no sufre aparentemente tos ni fatiga, y "disminuye la capacidad funcional de las c?lulas naturales del pulm?n que destruyen a los g?rmenes.

Adem?s, una investigaci?n del Centro e Investigaci?n Biom?dica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES) constat? recientemente que los fumadores tienen el sistema inmune alterado, lo que contribuye a explicar por qu? su susceptibilidad a padecer una infecci?n viral como la gripe A sea mayor que en el resto de la poblaci?n. Por ello, "abandonar el tabaco es una de las medidas de prevenci?n m?s eficaces para verse libre tanto de las infecciones respiratorias en general como la gripe A", advierten desde la CNPT.
 
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