title: Smoking and its effects on the healing process of chronic wounds.
abstract: Smoking has a negative impact on skin health. Numerous studies have effectively linked smoking with delayed wound healing and healing complications. Research has identified cigarette smoking affects wound healing at a cellular level. Reducing fibroblast activity and keratinocyte migration. Such is the concern around the affects that smoking has on wound healing that some question whether smoking abstinence should be a pre requisite before some surgical procedures. This article will discuss current research and clinical studies that have investigated impaired wound healing as a result of cigarette smoking.
authors.affiliation: Brighton University Hospital. jmcrobert195@hotmail.com
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McRobert
mesh_terms: D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*