If you need one any reason to quit smoking, here it is. Scientists have proven the link between the formation of acne in adulthood and smoking.
From youthful acne in varying degrees, affects up to 60% of adolescents. Usually, by the age of 30, even the strongest acne It passes, but many people continue to appear acne well into adulthood. Journal Journal of American Academy of Dermatology has published data from a recent study that traced the link between the comedones in adults and smoking.
As is known, in the formation of comedones when sebum collects in the hair follicle and forms a plug closing time. The study also refuted the widely held view that the papules, pustular acne is the most common form of adult acne in women as opposed comedones.
Smokers are 66, 3% of all adults suffer from acne, but lovers of cigarettes more often found comedones (72, 9%) than papules-pustular acne (29, 4%).
In addition, quite a significant association was found between the number of cigarettes smoked daily and the degree of manifestation of comedones on the skin. But the formation of inflammatory cystic acne does not affect smoking.
"This discovery should have an impact on the methodology treatment of acne We need more foods containing vitamin A and AHA and BHA acids to cleanse the skin, - says Dr. Marcy Street, a dermatologist from Michigan. - People also need to know more about the causes of acne in adulthood. "
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