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Cigarette smoking became a significant predictor of heart-stroke in China

According to one study smoking prevention and cessation efforts can reduce stroke deaths by almost 5 percent. Many researchers showed that cigarette smoking is a strong and independent risk factor for stroke.

China is one of the states where heart stroke is the leading cause of death. China is considered to be the world's leading producer and consumer of cigarettes because it is a state with the most populous nation.

"The study findings were consistent with reports from other populations, but in China this risk creates a huge public health problem," said Jiang He, the Joseph S. Copes Chair and professor of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.

Till now the relationship between cigarette smoking and stroke hasn't been well-studied in Asian populations. That’s why researchers from Tulane and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences have investigated 83,533 men and 86,336 women, 40 years old, from 17 provinces in mainland China.

They showed that cigarette smoking accounted for 14.2 percent of strokes and 7.1 percent of stroke fatalities in men, and 3.1 percent of strokes and 2.4 percent of stroke deaths in women. After this investigation the researchers concluded that cigarette smoking become the most significant predictor of stroke and the longer and heavier a person's smoking habit, the higher the risk of stroke is. The risks of stroke have increased. For example: 21% for those smoking 1-19 cigarettes per day and 36% for those smoking 20 or more cigarettes per day.

Anti-smoking researchers also analyzed "pack-years". They found that the risks of stroke increased: - 18 percent for those smoking 1-11 pack-years; - 25 percent for those smoking 12-26 pack-years; and - 34 percent for those smoking more than 26 pack-years.

This study shows that most Chinese still do not understand the risk associated with cigarette smoking. And only smoking prevention and cessation could be an important approach to reducing the societal burden of stroke in China.