Volume : 7, Issue : 12, December - 2018

ASSOCIATION OF CIGARETTE SMOKING AND RAISED BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVELS IN YOUNG POPULATION ATTENDING OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Dr. Hemlata Gupta, Dr. Ram Krishna Gupta

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">ABSTRACT:</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Background and objectives:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> <span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">According to the WHO, India is home to 12% of the world‘s smokers. More than 1 million die each year due to tobacco in India. </span>Cigarette smoking is one of the most extensively used potentially hazardous social habits throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Material and method</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: The study was conducted on 150 normal asymptomatic healthy males. Out of which 75 were controls and 75 were cigarette smokers with age-group between 17-35 years. The association of cigarette smoking and raised blood cholesterol levels was studied.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Results:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> The study showed, cigarette had raised concentration of serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-cholesterol, VLDL-cholesterol and had reduced levels of&nbsp; HDL cholesterol.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Conclusion:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> We observed a dose response relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality</span></p>