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Quitting Smoking Can Prevent Wound Infections [08/05-4]
Excerpts from: Smoking cessation can prevent wound infection
By Susan Aldridge, PhD Health
and Age [08/03/03]
Just four weeks of quitting smoking offers significant protection from wound
infection, researchers say.
Doctors in Copenhagen looked at the healing of an experimental small incision
in both smokers and non-smokers. In the smoking group, the participants either
continued to smoke or abstained (using a nicotine path or a placebo patch).
The study suggests that surgeons should impress on their patients the need
for giving up smoking before an operation. This study looked at just small experimental
wounds. In the real world, after surgery, the effects of smoking on wound healing
are likely to be far more detrimental.
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