{"id":3687,"date":"2009-08-07T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2009-08-23T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T16:14:34","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-accelerated-by-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/multiple-sclerosis-accelerated-by-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Sclerosis Accelerated by Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A new Harvard study concludes that smokers with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience more rapid progression of the disease than non-smokers, Reuters reported July 14.<br \/>\nSmokers also were 2.4 times more likely to have a progressive form of MS rather than the relapsing\/remitting type, and 2.5 times more likely to have developed secondary progressive MS after an initial diagnosis of the relapsing\/remitting version of the disease. Researchers found that smokers had more disability, severe disease and brain atrophy than non-smokers with MS, and had a greater degree of damaged brain tissue and brain atrophy over time.<br \/>\nResearcher Alberto Ascherio of the Harvard School of Public Health put a positive spin on the findings, noting that MS patients who quit smoking could slow progression of the disease.<br \/>\n<em>Source: Archives of Neurology. July 2009<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Harvard study concludes that smokers with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience more rapid progression of the disease than non-smokers, Reuters reported July 14. Smokers also were 2.4 times more likely to have a progressive form of MS rather than the relapsing\/remitting type, and 2.5 times more likely to have developed secondary progressive MS after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}