Sex Hormones Trigger Cigarettes Cause of Acute Disease

Various studies show that smoking or secondhand smoke mengirup worse effect onwomen than men. Recent studies have revealed, one of the dangers of smoking is to change the hormones in the body, especially postmenopausal women.


Smokers in the age of menopause have a higher sex hormone levels that trigger the risk of chronic disease than those who never smoked.


"The increase in sex hormone levels in smokers suggests that cigarette smoke, in addition to the direct effect caused by toxic carcinogenic, also affect the risk of chronicdisease through hormonal mechanisms," said Judith Marks, of the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, the study's lead author.

"The good news, the effect of cigarette smoking appears reversible. Sex hormones willgo down as soon as she stopped smoking," he told the Times of India.


In this study, researchers examined blood samples from 2030 postmenopausal womenaged 55-81 years, who are classified as 'smokers', 'former smoker' or 'never' smoking.


They found that female smokers had higher levels of androgens and estrogens is higherthan the two other groups. While the 'former' smokers who had quit within 1-2 years had higher levels of sex hormones similar to women who 'never' smoking.


The study will be published in the Journal of The Endocrine Society of ClinicalEndocrinology Metabolism