Cigarette Smoking Is Related to Endothelial Dysfunction of Resistance, but Not Conduit Arteries in the General Population—Results From the Gutenberg Health Study

Cigarette Smoking Is Related to Endothelial Dysfunction of Resistance, but Not Conduit Arteries in the General Population—Results From the Gutenberg Health Study

Aims: Cigarette smoking is one of the most complex and least understood cardiovascular risk factors. Importantly, differences in the tobacco-related pathophysiology of endothelial dysfunction, an early event in atherogenesis, between circulatory beds remain elusive. Therefore, this study evaluated h...

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Main Authors: Omar Hahad, Natalie Arnold, Jürgen H. Prochaska, Marina Panova-Noeva, Andreas Schulz, Karl J. Lackner, Norbert Pfeiffer, Irene Schmidtmann, Matthias Michal, Manfred Beutel, Philipp S. Wild, John F. Keaney, Andreas Daiber, Thomas Münzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
smoking
endothelial (dys)function
peripheral arterial tonometry
flow-mediated dilation
population-based
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.674622/full

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