Do you live with a smoker? Be careful, these are the risks.

Smoking is harmful; this has been known for a long time. But it's also important to know that even if you don't smoke, if you live with someone who does, there are also health risks. Here's more detail:

Passive smoking at home or work was linked to a 13 percent increased risk of hypertension (high blood pressure), and living with a smoker for more than 10 years increased it to 17 percent. , revealed a study conducted by Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Non-smoking men and women were equally affected, although the likelihood of developing high blood pressure (hypertension) increases with longer duration of passive smoking, even lower amounts are dangerous , stressed Byung Jin Kim, one of the authors of the research, whose results were presented in 2019.

Participants with hypertension were 4% more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work than those with normal blood pressure .

Blood pressure was higher in people exposed to passive smoke at home or work (7.2 percent) compared to those who were not exposed .

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Previous research has suggested a relationship between passive smoking and hypertension in nonsmokers. But most studies were small, limited to women, and used self-report questionnaires in which respondents typically overreport not smoking.

This is the first large study to assess the association between secondhand smoke and hypertension in people who have never smoked , as measured by urinary levels of cotinine, the main metabolite of nicotine.

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The analysis included 131,739 never-smokers, one-third of whom were men, and whose average age was 35 years.

The results suggest that It is necessary to completely stay away from secondhand smoke, not just reduce exposure, to protect against hypertension , said the scientist.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), high blood pressure was the leading cause of premature death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2015 .

With information from NTX

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