Smoking and non-smoking tobacco as risk factors in subarachnoid haemorrhage
- 4 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 114 (1) , 33-37
Abstract
Objective – Swedish snuff is a particular form of non-smoking tobacco with high nicotine content. It is unknown whether this form of tobacco is a risk factor similar to smoking for suffering subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). In the present study we report our finding concerning smoking and snuff as risk factors for the disease. Method – We analysed 120 consecutive patients with SAH regarding consumption of tobacco, in order to evaluate if snuff also is associated with an increased risk of SAH. Results – The relative risk of SAH was about 2.5 times higher for smokers compared with the background population. Consumption of snuff was not associated with an increased risk. Conclusions – It seems unlikely that nicotine is solely responsible for the rupture of cerebral aneurysms. The final cause of the increased risk for suffering SAH has to be sought in other factors associated with tobacco smoking.Keywords
This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
- Cigarette smoke and hypoxia induce acute changes in testicular and celebral microcirculationUpsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2000
- Absence of Plasma Protease-Antiprotease Imbalance in the Formation of Saccular Cerebral AneurysmsNeurosurgery, 1999
- Antioxidant status and α1-antiproteinase activity in subarachnoid hemorrhage patientsLife Sciences, 1998
- Risk Factors for Subarachnoid HemorrhageStroke, 1996
- Initial and recurrent bleeding are the major causes of death following subarachnoid hemorrhage.Stroke, 1994
- Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption as risk factors for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.Stroke, 1993
- Intracerebral hemorrhage more than twice as common as subarachnoid hemorrhageJournal of Neurosurgery, 1993
- Cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and subarachnoid hemorrhage.Stroke, 1992
- Cigarette smoking. A risk factor for hemorrhagic and nonhemorrhagic strokeArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1989
- Cigarette smoking, hypertension and the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage: a population-based case-control study.Stroke, 1986