If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. This means that their blood vessels become overly sensitised to cold and constrict while their blood pressure falls.
Symptoms are painful and disabling.
A report in Occupational and Environmental Medicine shows that smoking seems to perpetuate circulatory problems and that it delays recovery when the tools are no longer being used. The research team assessed the vascular responses of 600 shipyard metal workers in specially simulated cold conditions. All the workers had, or continued to use, pneumatic tools. Smokers were twice as likely to have severe symptoms of vasoconstriction as non-smokers. The smokers were also younger and had worked for a shorter time than the non-smokers, suggesting that their symptoms may have forced them to give up work, say the authors.