Reading The Lines
Posted in Health on 06/26/2008 09:36 pm by admin
A recent British study found that smokers with a lot of wrinkles are far more likely to have emphysema than are smokers with less-lined faces. Researchers looked at 149 current and former smokers who had smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for five years.
Independent experts assessed them for so-called crows’-feet, and their breathing capacity was tested. More than 80 percent of the volunteers with facial wrinkling were found to have symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
