Cigarettes, Cholesterol and Impotence
March 2nd, 2010 - By admin - Posted in Health ArticleAlmost everyone would have understood if smoking can cause many serious health problems. Even impotence warning is not just a slogan alone! But do you know if smoking can also increase bad cholesterol?
In several major countries abroad, warning the dangers of smoking is more aimed at the effects of one’s appearance so that the effect is more apparent jeranya. For example, “smoking can cause skin damage” or “smoking can cause cancer of the mouth” and so forth. But the warnings in cigarette packs and in cigarette advertising at the end of the media in Indonesia is not playing games, namely “Smoking Can Cause Cancer, Heart Attack, Impotence, Pregnancy and Fetal Disorders”. For the men, the risk of erectile dysfunction or impotence due to smoking is actually real.
Risk of Erectile Dysfunction
In fact, some research says that men have a habit of smoking a pack of cigarettes / day at risk 40% higher than suffer erectile dysfunction than men who did not smoke. “Smoking and nicotine release vasoconstrictors (barrier vessels) which can inhibit the flow of blood vessels in the penis,” said Dr. Jack Mydlo, head of urology at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital in Philadelphia, USA.
Tobacco Control Journal published a recent study in Australia 8000 men aged 16 to 59 years who smoked a pack of cigarettes / day at risk 24% higher erectile disorder. And the more they smoke the percentage of risk also increases. The men who smoked more than 20 cigarettes / day increased the risk of erectile dysfunction by 39%.
Another study published by the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that men are 40-year-old smokers often experience erectile problems than the older men but not smoking. Even the risk to double by the male 40-year-old smokers compared to the 50-year-old man who did not smoke.
“Smoking causes constriction of blood vessels that is the main cause of erectile dysfunction in addition to obesity, excessive alcohol consumption and drug abuse,” he said. Larry Lipshultz, chief of male reproductive medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA.
Increased Cholesterol Evil
Heart specialist and Chairman of Vascular Society of Indonesia, dr. Sani Auli SpJP (K), FJCC. express, smoking can cause disturbances of fat metabolism. In people who smoke, found levels of HDL cholesterol or good cholesterol is low. That means, the formation of HDL cholesterol, in charge of carrying fat from the liver tissue to be disrupted. The first condition is very unhealthy. While the opposite, in people who smoke in LDL cholesterol levels or high bad cholesterol. This means that instead of fat from the liver tissue was taken back to the body. The second condition is also exacerbate health.
“In essence, transport fat to the liver to be disturbed.” dr. Aulia. Although often found low HDL cholesterol levels in a smoker, according to dr. Aulia, no specific studies that could explain how the mechanism of HDL cholesterol levels decreased by smoking.
Risk of Deadly Diseases Other
Other diseases are closely related to smoking are heart disease, blood vessels, cancer, lung, or gastrointestinal ulcers. In Indonesia, 26.4% of deaths due to heart disease. Cigarettes became the main risk factor for coronary heart disease. This disease work synergistically against other disease risk factors, such as hypertension, increased cholesterol levels, diabetes, and others. The risk of stroke and death was also increased in smokers.
Outstanding problems in the habit of smoking in Indonesia is the type of cigarettes smoked, the clove cigarettes. These types have tar and nicotine levels higher 3 – 5 times compared with the cigarette filter. Nicotine in cigarettes can accelerate the process of narrowing and blockage of blood vessels. Blockage and narrowing of this bias occurs in the coronary blood vessels, which served to bring oxygen to the heart.
Smoking can increase blood pressure in the arteries, damaging the inner lining of blood vessels, so easy to condense the blood to clot, disturb heart rhythm and the resulting lack of oxygen but because of the content of CO (carbon monoxide).
Ways Stop Smoking
Almost all smokers wish to quit smoking but they do not know how. Moreover, the effects of smoking can cause addiction. dr. Aulia explained, cigarettes have the same effect as morphine, which is the effect of addiction (addiction) and habituation (dependence).
To stop smoking, according Aulia, it takes a very strong determination of the people concerned. dr. Aulia also revealed, there are several ways to stop the clinical smoking addiction. Smokers can take nicotine replacement therapy to eliminate the effects of addiction. Way, by attaching a tape of nicotine.
“Like people addicted to morphine, nicotine plasters provided with specific doses and with medical supervision. Materials that absorb nicotine through the skin dose would be reduced gradually. If the person is no longer addicted, nicotine will the plaster could be removed,” said dr. Aulia.
Another way is to follow the drinking water treatment. If there is a desire to smoke, immediately drink enough water so the loss of thirst sensation is believed eliminate the desire to smoke.
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