Smoking weakens healing resources of the body Scientists from the United States conducted a large-scale study, which revealed another negative consequence of smoking. American orthopedists have found out that smoking people can face the worst recovery of bone tissue after fractures.

Medics said that more than 15% of smokers are at risk of experiencing delayed fusion of the periarticular and long tubular bones in their fractures, as well as during surgical intervention in the bone structure of the tissues.

Scientists believe that smoking weakens healing resources of the body, because of which the body of a smoking person often narrows the vessels, reduces the production of collagen, platelet aggregation, and also inhibits the work of all kinds of cells.

Orthopedic surgeons are interested in this problem, because only in the US every year there are approximately 700 thousand different fractures in citizens. Having studied more than 20 scientific works devoted to this subject, scientists have discovered that smoking does not directly affect the integrity of bones, however, it inhibits the healing processes.

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