Risk of Lung Cancer, It could Seen from Nail Conditions

Nail conditions are not only related to hygiene problems such as the risk of diarrhea and intestinal worms. Nails can also be used to estimate the risk of lung cancer in men, with more accurate than urine and saliva.

Research shows that men who nails a lot containing nicotine has risks
lung cancer 3.5 times higher than if the nails do not contain nicotine. Of the 33,737 men studied for 13 years, 210 of whom had high levels of nicotine and finally lung cancer.

In that study, researchers from the University of California at San Diego using a piece of toenail nicotine to be analyzed. The participants were also given questionnaires about their smoking habits during the study and in previous times.

Nicotine levels also can be measured from other things such as urine and saliva. However, more accurate measurements in the nail due to nail growth is slower, so that residual nicotine in the network are relatively more stable than in urine and saliva.

High levels of nicotine are associated with cancer risk, because
the presence of these compounds indicate the presence of cigarette smoke travel history with hundreds of poisons carcinogens (cancer-triggering) in it. Nicotine itself is actually not trigger cancer.

Interestingly, nicotine content in the nail was not always associated with active smokers. Research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests, a fairly high content of nicotine is also found in 10 percent of men who only become passive smokers.

"Previous studies more often associate the dangers of tobacco smoke with lung cancer risk in active smokers. As a result of passive smoking on the risk of less attention,"