Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) who smoke are three to four times more likely than are never-smokers to incur digital vascular complications, researchers in England have found. This finding signals a need for more resources to support smoking cessation programs for these patients, underline investigators from the North Manchester General Hospital and ARC Epidemiology Unit, Manchester, and the Rheumatic Diseases Center, Hope Hospital, Salford.
With smoking a risk factor for vascular disease in the general population, and SSc patients at high risk for digital vascular complications, including amputation and gangrene, Dr Beverley J. Harrison and colleagues investigated the influence of smoking on digital ischemia in these patients.
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