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Smoking is associated with lower brain volume and cognitive differences : a large population analysis based on the UK Biobank
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Linli, Zeqiang, Rolls, Edmund T., Zhao, Wei, Kang, Jujiao, Feng, Jianfeng and Guo, Shuixia (2023) Smoking is associated with lower brain volume and cognitive differences : a large population analysis based on the UK Biobank. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 123 . 110698. doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110698 ISSN 0278-5846.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110698
Abstract
The evidence about the association of smoking with both brain structure and cognitive functions remains inconsistent. Using structural magnetic resonance imaging from the UK Biobank (n = 33,293), we examined the relationships between smoking status, dosage, and abstinence with total and 166 regional brain gray matter volumes (GMV). The relationships between the smoking parameters with cognitive function, and whether this relationship was mediated by brain structure, were then investigated. Smoking was associated with lower total and regional GMV, with the extent depending on the frequency of smoking and on whether smoking had ceased: active regular smokers had the lowest GMV (Cohen's d = -0.362), and former light smokers had a slightly smaller GMV (Cohen's d = -0.060). The smaller GMV in smokers was most evident in the thalamus. Higher lifetime exposure (i.e., pack-years) was associated with lower total GMV (β = -311.84, p = 8.35 × 10 ). In those who ceased smoking, the duration of abstinence was associated with a larger total GMV (β = 139.57, p = 2.36 × 10 ). It was further found that reduced cognitive function was associated with smoker parameters and that the associations were partially mediated by brain structure. This is the largest scale investigation we know of smoking and brain structure, and these results are likely to be robust. The findings are of associations between brain structure and smoking, and in the future, it will be important to assess whether brain structure influences smoking status, or whether smoking influences brain structure, or both. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.]
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Smoking , Brain -- Physiology, Cognition disorders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0278-5846 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 20 April 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 123 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 110698 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110698 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 December 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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