Does Mri Report Does We Get To Know That About Smoking?

Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2024

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Question : in spine mri report does we get to know that you smoke or not

Answered by Dr. Vaishalee Punj (10 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Chronic smoking can induce brain changes

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome here,

Long term smoking can induce changes in brain and spine that can be picked on MRI with some accuracy.

Some researches to support this include:
Domino EF. Tobacco smoking and MRI/MRS brain abnormalities compared to nonsmokers. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Dec 12;32(8):1778-81. Available on https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC0000/

Wang S, Zhang R, Deng Y, Chen K, Xiao D, Peng P, Jiang T. Discrimination of smoking status by MRI based on deep learning method. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2018 Dec;8(11):1113-1120. Available on https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC0000/

Smoking is associated with some neurological diseases like Alzheimer's dementia and other dementia, stroke, brain atrophy, etc. These can also be picked on MRI.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Dr Vaishalee

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj