Associations of cigarette smoking and burden of thoracic aortic calcification in asymptomatic individuals: A dose-response relationship.

Associations of cigarette smoking and burden of thoracic aortic calcification in asymptomatic individuals: A dose-response relationship.

Smoking is known as a powerful predictor of pathological coronary atherosclerosis. Thoracic aortic calcification (TAC), an alternative marker for pathological atherosclerosis, has also been shown to be associated unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes. We aimed to investigate the dose-response relation...

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Main Authors: Jui-Peng Tsai, Ya-Ting Jan, Chun-Ho Yun, Kuo-Tzu Sung, Chuan-Chuan Liu, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Chung-Lieh Hung, Tung-Hsin Wu, Jiun-Lu Lin, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, Hung-I Yeh, Hiram G Bezerra, Aaron So
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227680

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227680

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