{"id":4021,"date":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/number-of-cigarettes-smoked-daily-tied-to-stroke-risk\/"},"modified":"2018-04-20T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:09:23","slug":"number-of-cigarettes-smoked-daily-tied-to-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/number-of-cigarettes-smoked-daily-tied-to-stroke-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Cigarettes Smoked Daily Tied to Stroke Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Among men younger than 50, more cigarettes smoked linked to increased risk of ischemic stroke<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; There is a strong dose-response relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked daily and ischemic stroke risk among men younger than 50 years of age, according to a study published online April 19 in <i>Stroke<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Janina Markidan, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues examined the dose-response relationship between the quantity of cigarettes smoked and the odds of developing an ischemic stroke in adult men under age 50 years in a study with 615 cases and 530 controls.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the odds ratio (OR) for the current smoking group was 1.88 versus never smokers. When the current smoking group was categorized by number of cigarettes smoked, a dose-response relationship emerged, with the OR ranging from 1.46 for <11 cigarettes per day to 5.66 for \u226540 cigarettes per day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although complete smoking cessation is the goal, even smoking fewer cigarettes may reduce the risk of ischemic stroke in young men,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stroke.ahajournals.org\/content\/early\/2018\/04\/18\/STROKEAHA.117.018859\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among men younger than 50, more cigarettes smoked linked to increased risk of ischemic stroke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}