Smoking: a negative prognostic for survival in motor neurone disease patients
Elizabeth Highton is joined by Prof. Adriano Chio to talk about his study:\nInfluence of cigarette smoking on ALS outcome: a population-based study.\n\nHis large population-based cohort study of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as motor neurone disease, demonstrated that smoking is linked to their shorter survival and smokers also tended to be younger when the symptoms first appeared.\n\nRead the full article here: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2016/08/19/jnnp-2016-313793.full.\nThe press release is available here: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/suppl/2016/09/20/jnnp-2016-313793.DC1/jnnp-2016-313793supp_Pressrelease.pdf.