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Ranjbar A, Rajabian H, Jand Y, Mirza Zadeh E, Esmaili A, Ghasemi Nejad S et al . The Comparison of Oxidative Stress Between Smokers and Nonsmokers. J Arak Uni Med Sci 2004; 7 (3) :7-11
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Introduction: Disturbance  between  production  of  free radicals  and  antioxidant  defense is  named  oxidative  stress. One  of  the  main  sources  of  free  radicals  is  smoking  that  induce  oxidative  stress.
Materials  and  Methods: This  is  a  cross  sectional  study  in  which  questionnaires  including  information  such  as  age, sex, education, history  and  number of  smoking  and  history  of  special  disease  were  filled. Case  group  were  smokers (n=43)  who  were  smoking  at  least  5  years  and  their  mean  age  was  37.7  year. The control  group  was  consisted  of  43  nonsmokers  which  were  matched  for  age  and  sex.  They  were  evaluated  for  oxidative  stress  markers  including  thiobarbituric  acid  reactive  substance  (TBARS)  indicator  of  lipid peroxidation (LPO), ferric  reducing  ability  of  plasma (FRAP) indicator  of  total  antioxidant  capacity, total  thiol (SH)  groups  and  gammaglutamyl  transferase (GGT) levels  in  blood.
Results: Results  showed  that  induction  of  oxidative  stress  in  smokers  as  revealed  by  decreased  FRAP (1.89±0.03 vs  2.24±0.04, p=0.01) and  plasma  Sh  groups  (0.22±0.08 vs  0.81±0.48, p=0.01)  in  comparison  to  those  of  controls. The  activity  of  GGT  and  level  of  LPO  increased  but  were  not  significant . Also  the  correlation  between  history  of  smoking  and  oxidative  stress  was  not  significant.
Conclusion: It  is  concluded  that  smoking  have  decreased  FRAP  and  SH  groups which  may  put  smokers  at  future  consequences  of  oxidative  stress.  It  seems  that  improving  antioxidant  system  in  smokers  is  effective.
 
 
 
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Received: 2021/01/29 | Accepted: 2004/10/1

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