Medical News: Smoking Linked to Eye Inflammation - in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology from MedPage Today.
Yet another reason to quit cigarettes: a history of smoking appears to be a risk factor for uveitis, a retrospective, case-control study showed. Patients at a single uveitis clinic were more likely to report past or current smoking than patients without ocular inflammation (35.5% versus 23.6%, P<0.001), according to Nisha Acharya, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
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