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Monday, February 25, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Strokes linked to smoking, study says
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Cigarette smoking quadruples the risk of one kind of stroke and speeds deterioration of arteries that supply the brain, studies show.
A 50-year-old who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day has artery damage comparable to a light smoker 10 years older, said Robert Dempsey, a neurosurgeon at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
"The effect in that 50-year-old would be to take 10 years off his life," Dempsey said at Saturday the day of the organization's annual meeting on strokes.
In a separate study, researchers found that those who smoked a pack a day or less were four times as likely as non-smokers to suffer from the form of stroke called subarachnoid hemorrhage, which occurs primarily in people younger than 65 and more
commonly in women. It has a high death rate.
Those who smoked more than a pack a day had up to 11 times the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhages, which make up 7 percent of the 500,000 strokes suffered by Americans each year.
Will Longstreth, the study's author, said that the risk was especially high within three hours of smoking a cigarette, after which it fell off gradually. But smokers continue to have a higher risk of this kind of stroke even years after they give up cigarettes, he said.
"If you stop smoking now, you're looking at a 10-year period of time until your risk is what it is in someone who's never smoked," said Longstreth, a neurologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Longstreth's findings were based on a study of 149 stroke victims and
149 people of similar backgrounds who had not had strokes. He concluded that smoking was responsible for about 38 percent of all subarachnoid hemorrhages.
These deposits can ultimately diminish or block blood flow to parts of the brain, causing strokes.
He said that more than 3,000 such strokes could be prevented each year in the United States by the elimination of smoking.
In the other study, Dempsey made use of a special ultrasound scanner in determining the thickness of waxy deposits building up inside the carotid artery, one of the principal suppliers of blood to the brain.
Dempsey found in an examination of 790 patients that the thickness of the deposits, called plaques, was directly related to the amount that smokers had smoked over their lifetimes.
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- Someone broke a KU student's car window and took a purse and contents valued at $135 between 10:15 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday in Lawrence, CA. Damage to the law enforcement police reported. Dirtage to the car totaled $200.
- Someone broke a KU student's car window and took a purse valued at $100 between 11 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of West 25rd Street, Lawrence police damaged. Damage to the car totaled $60
- Someone entered a KU student's room and removed a diamond necklace valued at $450 between 2:30 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Drive, Lawrence police reported.
- Stereo equipment valued at $400 was taken from a KU student's car between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the 400 block of Stone Drive, Lawrence police reported. Damage to the car totaled $200.
- Stereo equipment valued at $656 was taken from a KU student's car between midnight Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday in the 400 block of Stone Drive, Lawrence police reported. Damage to the car totaled $100.
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- Stereo equipment valued at $1,140 was taken from a KU student's car between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. Thursday in the 400 block of Graystone Drive, Lawrence police reported. Damage to the car totaled $100.
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