Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers

Smoking is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory neoplasms and diseases, and will kill more than one billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking induced endothelial dysfunction triggers a new alarm for this social custom, which in co...

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Main Authors: Adriana TICARĂU, Dumitru MATEI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Amaltea Medical Publishing House 2016-06-01
Series:Romanian Journal of Medical Practice
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Online Access:https://rjmp.com.ro/articles/2016.2/RJMP_2016_2_Art-08.pdf
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spelling doaj-1e76ceaca76f4d439df2c262e901fdba2021-09-09T14:23:09ZengAmaltea Medical Publishing HouseRomanian Journal of Medical Practice1842-82582069-61082016-06-0111214715010.37897/RJMP.2016.2.8Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokersAdriana TICARĂU0Dumitru MATEI1Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie „Carol Davila“, BucureştiUniversitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie „Carol Davila“, Bucureşti Institutul Naţional pentru Sănătatea Mamei şi Copilului „Alessandrescu-Rusescu“, BucureştiSmoking is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory neoplasms and diseases, and will kill more than one billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking induced endothelial dysfunction triggers a new alarm for this social custom, which in connection with metabolic syndrome, who has reached alarming rates of prevalence in recent years, contributes specifically to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study we aimed to evaluate more parameters of endothelial dysfunction in smokers patients, indicating a high statistical significance of the influence of smoking on arterial stiffness.https://rjmp.com.ro/articles/2016.2/RJMP_2016_2_Art-08.pdfendothelial dysfunctionsmokingmetabolic syndromecomorbiditiescardiovascular diseasechronic respiratory disease
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author Adriana TICARĂU
Dumitru MATEI
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Dumitru MATEI
Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
Romanian Journal of Medical Practice
endothelial dysfunction
smoking
metabolic syndrome
comorbidities
cardiovascular disease
chronic respiratory disease
author_facet Adriana TICARĂU
Dumitru MATEI
author_sort Adriana TICARĂU
title Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
title_short Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
title_full Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
title_fullStr Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
title_full_unstemmed Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
title_sort endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
publisher Amaltea Medical Publishing House
series Romanian Journal of Medical Practice
issn 1842-8258
2069-6108
publishDate 2016-06-01
description Smoking is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory neoplasms and diseases, and will kill more than one billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking induced endothelial dysfunction triggers a new alarm for this social custom, which in connection with metabolic syndrome, who has reached alarming rates of prevalence in recent years, contributes specifically to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study we aimed to evaluate more parameters of endothelial dysfunction in smokers patients, indicating a high statistical significance of the influence of smoking on arterial stiffness.
topic endothelial dysfunction
smoking
metabolic syndrome
comorbidities
cardiovascular disease
chronic respiratory disease
url https://rjmp.com.ro/articles/2016.2/RJMP_2016_2_Art-08.pdf
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