Smoking: a negative prognostic for survival in motor neurone disease patients

Elizabeth Highton is joined by Prof. Adriano Chio to talk about his study: Influence of cigarette smoking on ALS outcome: a population-based study. His 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. Read the full article here: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2016/08/19/jnnp-2016-313793.full.

The press release is available here: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/suppl/2016/09/20/jnnp-2016-313793.DC1/jnnp-2016-313793supp_Pressrelease.pdf.