Researchers find smoking may increase risk for lung disease
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that approximately one out of every twelve adult smokers have abnormal lung densities present on chest computed tomography (CT) images suggestive of interstitial lung disease which is associated with substantial reductions in lung volumes. In addition, despite being positively associated with smoking, these lung densities were inversely not associated with emphysema. This research is published online on March 10th in the New England Journal of Medicine.