Abstract
Background: Tobacco smoking is a major health issue worldwide. In addition to several health problems, one of the major causes of cancer and cardiovascular diseases leads to millions of premature deaths each year all over the world. Scientists have identified about 5,000 different substances in tobacco all of which have a certain degree of toxic effects, at least 43 of them known carcinogens. Hypertension is a global public health problem, is one of the most valuable preventable causes of premature morbidity and mortality in the world and its management is one of the most common interventions in primary care. HTN affects over 26% of the adult population worldwide.
Aim of Study: The goal of this study is to highlight the relationship between smoking and changes in Hematological parameters and its effect on hypertension.
Methodology: Seventy healthy Volunteers (Staff and Students) from the Tishk international university in Erbil city, 50 active smokers (Group A) aged between (18-25) years old and 20 nonsmokers (Group B), 8 Females and 55 males in total. The smokers were regularly consuming (5-20) cigarettes per day for at least 1 year. Complete blood counts were conducted by using a fully automated blood counter analyzed.
Result: Among the smokers (44%) are hypertensive in systolic blood pressure, while (20%) of nonsmokers had a higher percentage in diastolic blood pressure. In addition (35%) nonsmokers had low haemoglobin levels in comparison with smokers (12%) of them had high haemoglobin level PV (<0.001), because of hypoxia. Regarding the RBCs number higher percentage was between smokers (15%), PV (0.001), furthermore, thrombocytosis is more occur among smokers in contrast to non-smokers PV (0.008).