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Smoking and its effects on the healing process of chronic wounds
1Brighton University Hospital. jmcrobert195@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Smoking has a negative impact on skin health. Numerous studies have effectively linked smoking with delayed wound healing and healing complications. Research has identified cigarette smoking affects wound healing at a cellular level. Reducing fibroblast activity and keratinocyte migration. Such is the concern around the affects that smoking has on wound healing that some question whether smoking abstinence should be a pre requisite before some surgical procedures. This article will discuss current research and clinical studies that have investigated impaired wound healing as a result of cigarette smoking.
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