20 Minutes /France)
juuillet 2015
On le savait déjà, fumer est mauvais pour la santé. Cancers, maladies cardiovasculaires, allergies, asthme ou encore bronchites chroniques, la liste des affections provoquées par la cigarette est longue. Mais le tabagisme aurait encore d’autres effets néfastes : il augmenterait les risques de développer des troubles psychiatriques, comme le révèle une étude britannique parue dans la revue The Lancet Psychiatry. (fin citation)
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Summary:
"Although the association between psychotic illness and cigarette smoking is well known, the reasons are unclear why people with psychosis are more likely to smoke than are the general population. We aimed to test several hypotheses. First, that daily tobacco use is associated with an increased risk of psychotic illness in both case-control and prospective studies. Second, that smoking is associated with an earlier age at onset of psychotic illness. Finally, that an earlier age at initiation of smoking is associated with an increased risk of psychosis. We also aimed to derive an estimate of the prevalence of smoking in patients presenting with their first episode of psychosis"