A study suggests smoking affects the bone health

Hannah Dailey of Lehigh University suggested as per study that smoking cigarettes will delay the healing after bone injury and also explained, “We are all familiar with some of the more well-known negative health effects of smoking, but the influence on bone healing is less widely known outside the medical community.”


Hannah Dailey of Lehigh University also said, “Our study recommended that all fracture patients should be provided with support for smoking cessation to help reduce the risk of complications related to their injury.”


Hannah Dailey also said, “This finding does not have a simple obvious biological explanation, and suggests that there are other factors--such as living environment, employment, activity levels and others--that could be contributing to bone healing in a way that isn’t easy to measure.”


According to study, “Smoking did not increase the risk of nonunion but did significantly extend the median time to union. Nonunion risk also shows a nonlinear trend with age and women in middle adulthood may be at increased risk compared with all other groups. This finding is not explained by the distributions of injury characteristics and suggests that exogenous factors, such as weight-bearing behaviour, may have a contributing effect and should be objectively measured in future prospective investigations.”


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