Marta García Canales’s research while affiliated with Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital and other places

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Repercusión del hábito de fumar en la función pulmonar de fumadores activos
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December 2011

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Damaris Reyes Hernández

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Marta García Canales

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Patricia Simón Ortega

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Kymani Pérez García

Introduction: in this century has been an unusual increase of smoking, habit that is the more important risk factor for development of ventilatory limitation, such action has became a problem in the health staff. Objective: to determine the possible repercussion of smoking on the pulmonary function. A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in smokers working in the "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay" Central and Military Hospital. Sixty smokers underwent a spirometry study. Results: there was predominance of female sex from the 40 and 49 age-groups. The assistant staff was the group with a greater figure of smokers. Cigarette was the more consumed toxic agent. Also, there was predominance of moderate smokers (11-20 cigarettes by day) during more of 21 years with the greater figure of patients with respiratory symptoms. Conclusions: the predominant spirometry pattern was normal, but there was a significant percentage of smokers presenting with an obstructive ventilatory dysfunction, showing the damage to pulmonary function in the smokers staff.

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... La presencia de un porcentaje importante de fumadores con disfunción ventilatoria obstructiva, demuestra el daño en la función pulmonar. (60) En el Hospital Militar Central Dr. Luís Díaz Soto, un estudio observacional analítico de casos y controles, con el objetivo de buscar la repercusión negativa del tabaquismo en la enfermedad cardiovascular aterosclerótica en 89 fumadores, encuentra superioridad en los fumadores del sexo masculino, con un consumo moderado entre 10 y 15 cigarros por día, con un control de la tensión arterial muy bajo, a pesar de estar diagnosticados como casos severos. Predomina el descontrol a un nivel altamente significativo de las cifras de presión arterial, por lo que se concluye que un porcentaje importante de fumadores activos hipertensos, no pueden recibir la protección contra la enfermedad cardiovascular aterosclerótica de los medicamentos hipotensores, por lo que es indispensable evitar el tabaco en cualquiera de sus formas y en todos los grupos de edades. ...

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Caracterización de conductas, conocimientos y motivaciones de adolescentes ante el tabaquismo. Preuniversitario de la capital, 2014-2015. Propuesta de un plan de acción. Characterization of behaviors, knowledge and motivations of adolescents regarding smoking. Pre-university of the capital, 2014-2015. Proposal for an action plan.
Repercusión del hábito de fumar en la función pulmonar de fumadores activos
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  • December 2011