Smoking may increase risk for lung disease
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found that approximately one out of every 12 adult smokers have abnormal lung densities present on chest computed tomography 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.