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Originally Posted by Palamedes The data I've seen indicates that the risk is about 10 times greater for smokers (not 50%). ... Also, I don't believe that the non-smoking population has anywhere near a 5% chance of getting lung cancer. |
When one is discussing the effects of smoking, one should also consider all of the possible smoking-related health problems, not just lung cancer, such as:
- Bladder cancer
- Lung disease
- Mouth cancer
- Heart disease
- Pancreas cancer
- High blood pressure
- Cervical cancer
- Stroke
- Pregnancy complications
- Kidney cancer
- Early menopause
For high blood pressure: Among other health problems, high blood pressure can lead to:
- arteriosclerosis
- heart attack
- stroke
- enlarged heart
- kidney damage
- other organ damage
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Originally Posted by Editor Greetings,
I am wondering if anyone can find hard numbers with specifics on the effects of high blood pressure? |
Finding accurate statistics is tough with high blood pressure. When a patient comes in with kidney disease and high blood pressure, or heart failure and high blood pressure, or a stroke and high blood pressure, the exact causes of the health problems are complex are not easily defined.
During my own battle against high blood pressure, I found that, over the years, my health problems gradually got worse during the years that my blood pressure was gradually increasing. When I finally got my blood pressure under control, my health problems significantly got better over a relatively short period of time.