THE EFFECT OF SMOKING IN RENAL FUNCTIONS | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 100-106 | ||
| Author | ||
| Adnan Ali ehsan Ismaeel | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The kidney is one of the organs that are adversely influenced by smoking. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of cigarette smoking and the duration of smoking on renal function, as indicated by renal function tests. Two hundred subjects were included in this study, classified into control group (100 subjects healthy males) and smoker group (100 male smokers) were smoking more than 20 cigarette /day. Renal function tests were done by measurement of serum creatinine, creatinine clearance, serum urea and proteinuria which carried out in laboratory of kidney dialysis unit of Ibn-Senna hospital in Mosul, for all subjects. The effect of the duration of the smoking on renal functions was also studied. The levels of serum creatinine and serum urea were significantly higher in smoker group at p<0.001 compared with the control group. On the other hand, creatinine clearance which reflects GFR exhibited a significant decrease in the smokers. Additionally, smoker people recorded a significant increase in proteinuria. The effect of duration of the smoking on renal function did show significantly bad effects particularly above 10 years duration. The study concluded that, the kidney function is affected adversely in smoker people as indicated by the results obtained by renal function tests, particularly after 10years duration of the smoking | ||
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