Furniture and smokers

1997/01/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Osasuna

Smoking is known to harm our health, but if we analyze Altzeimer's disease the consequence is totally different. Recent research has shown that smokers are at less risk for dementia-related illness.

This disease attacks brain cells and, as we know so far, occurs when proteins are grouped into groups. A group of Ohio researchers recently clarified that nicotine prevents proteins from clustering in groups.

The brains of altzeimer patients are full of protein plaques called b-amyloid. These platelets kill neurons and that is when the disease develops. Nicotine, on the other hand, stimulates the survival of neurons and prevents the formation of platelets.