{"id":4356,"date":"2020-01-17T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:28:20","slug":"hookah-smoking-linked-to-increased-risk-of-stroke-heart-attack-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"Hookah smoking linked to increased risk of stroke, heart attack, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Houston,<\/strong>\u00a0Tobacco smoke from a hookah may form blood clots, and can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a first-of-its-kind study on mice.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, found that tobacco smoke from a hookah caused blood clots to form within an average of about 11 seconds, compared to five minutes for clotting without an exposure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hookah smoking, which is becoming more popular in Western countries, is perceived as less harmful than cigarettes, yet hookahs carry a toxic profile that is thought to be comparable or to even exceed that of traditional cigarettes,&#8221; said study co-author Fadi Khasawneh from The University of Texas at El Paso in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Based on earlier studies, Khasawneh said the smoke emitted from one hookah tobacco smoking episode contained significantly more harmful chemicals compared to a single cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the scientists exposed mice to hookah smoke from a machine that mimicked real-life smoking habits.<\/p>\n<p>The smoking machine used 12 grams of commercially available, flavoured tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>These included tobacco, glycerin, molasses and natural flavour along with nicotine and tar.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the platelet activity among the exposed and the unexposed mice, the researchers found that hookah smoking was as unhealthy &#8212; if not more so &#8212; than traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smoking a hookah, cigarettes, e-cigarettes or other forms of tobacco all increase your risk for heart disease and stroke,&#8221; Khasawneh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston,\u00a0Tobacco smoke from a hookah may form blood clots, and can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a first-of-its-kind study on mice. The study, published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, found that tobacco smoke from a hookah caused blood clots to form within an average of about 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}