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Smokers Wrinkles and lung disease

Do Wrinkles, Cause lung disease

Smoking is known to cause early aging of the skin. It is also known, of course, to cause lung disease. Now a study finds that smokers with a lot of wrinkles are far more likely to have lung damage than are smokers with less-lined faces.

The study, which appears online in the journal Thorax, found that heavily wrinkled smokers were five times as likely as other smokers to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The findings “raise the question, 'Is it possible to predict the presence of COPD in smokers from their facial appearance?'” the authors write.

The disease can occur in people who have emphysema or chronic bronchitis, but most smokers do not get it. Since wrinkling and emphysema share some characteristics, the researchers say, the people who are more likely to have wrinkles caused by smoking may also be more likely to develop emphysema.

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