By Gunjan Sinha If cancer, heart disease, and emphysema weren’t bad enough, male smokers may have another thing to worry about: losing their Y chromosomes. Researchers have found that smokers are up to four times more likely to have blood cells with no Y chromosome than nonsmokers. That’s worrisome, they…...
Gender and Ethnicity Influence the Risk of Dying from Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers
Men who have never smoked are more likely to die from lung cancer than women, as are Asians who live in Asia compared with individuals of European decent. An international team of investigators drew these conclusions from an analysis of 13 prospective studies that involved 63,000 individuals for tracking lung…...
