Age and cigarette smoking are independently associated with the cutaneous vascular response to local warming
Purpose: to investigate the relative impacts of age and cigarette smoking on cutaneous blood flow and flow motion. Experimental design: skin blood flux was measured before and during the hyperaemic response to thermal warming of the skin to 43°C using laser Doppler fluximetry (LDF) in 28 habitual s...
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| Language: | English |
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2009-11.
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