Passive smoking is especially dangerous for people with chronic cardiac insufficiency

January 30, 2012

If you have chronic cardiac abnormalities, than life or work under the same roof with smoker will cost you for sure problems with physical health and mental disposition. This, should seem, a priori fact was for the first time systemic proved by group of scientists from USA from California University.

Researchers worked with 205 volunteers-heart sufferers who have to regularly inhale air together with tobacco smoke. It appeared to be that these unfortunate people face problems every day - either with physical health or mental. Results of this experiment were published in "Archives of Therapeutic Medicine" magazine. As of yet, there are no incontestable scientific proofs of the fact that all people who smoke in heart sufferers' presence should be punished with total boycott, however statistic data, got by Americans are data that cannot be denied.

Life quality loss of chronic sick with cardiac insufficiency is obvious.

Head of the research, Doctor Christian Fleyshman says that patients with cardiac insufficiency are just obliged (for sake of their life) to avoid passive smoking because the result of dangerous neighborhood can become myocardial infarction. Probably it is because tobacco smoke is able to cause vasculitis.

Liminal dangerous dose of passive smoking for representatives of the above mentioned group makes one hour a week in the company of smoking people.