Smoking may increase inflammatory bowel disease risk
Smoking may increase inflammatory bowel disease risk
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Are you a chain smoker? then pay attention towards smoking cigarettes may affect a direct on your intestines. It can be the risk of developing Crohn's disease- a chronic a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the digestive tract — finds the study.

The study also finds that inflammation in the lungs is due to buy effects the intestines as the "airways and the intestinal system have a lot in common". According to the Hyunsu Bae who is from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea has said that "Crohn’s disease is more likely to occur in people with airway diseases, suggesting that inflammation in the lungs is linked to inflammation in the gut."

Smoking also raises the levels of CD4+ T cells — a type of white blood cell — which was releasing a pro-inflammatory protein called interferon-gamma. these white blood cells activated by cigarette smoke in the lungs, travel to the colon to cause colitis — an inflammation of the colon resembling Crohn’s disease.

The study also suggests that cigarette smoking activates specific white blood cells in the lung, which might later move to the colon, triggering bowel inflammation. 

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