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Effect of Cigarette and Shisha smoking on cognitive functions impairment: A cross sectional study
- Source :
- Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objectives: Cigarette and Shisha smoking is becoming a common practice in young generation worldwide. Since, this is a growing threat to public health, our study aims to investigate the cognitive function responses of cigarette and Shisha inhalation in adolescents. Methods: This retrospective cross sectional study comprised three groups, cigarette smoker, Shisha smoker, and nonsmoker control group (each n=25). All the participants were apparently healthy male volunteers aged 21-24 years. Cognitive functions were assessed by employing “Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery”. The cognitive functions outcome variables were response time tasks (attention switching task (AST) and the percentage of correct answers pattern recognition memory (PRM) task. Results: Cigarette and Shisha smokers exhibited a considerable decline in cognitive performance parameters, AST mean correct latency (p=0.001), AST mean correct latency (congruent) (p=0.001), AST mean correct latency (incongruent) (p=0.001) and AST mean correct latency (switching) (p=0.001) compared to matched control group. Conclusions: Cigarette and Shisha smokers exhibited significant impairment in their cognitive functions. The present study findings convince that cigarette and Shisha smokers should quit smoking. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.5.2251 How to cite this:Bashir S, Murtaza G, Meo SA, Al-Masri A. Effect of Cigarette and Shisha smoking on cognitive functions impairment: A cross sectional study. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(5):1042-1047. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.5.2251 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
medicine.medical_specialty
Cross-sectional study
Shisha
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance
Cigarette
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Cigarette Smoker
business.industry
Public health
Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery
Smoking
Cognition
CANTAB
General Medicine
Creative commons
Cognitive functions
Original Article
Attribution
business
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1681715X and 1682024X
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e4c8238feb7250e4dd84d9f303d9a47b