Smokeless tobacco use and atherosclerosis: An ultrasonographic investigation of carotid intima media thickness in healthy middle-aged men

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-103

  Bolinder, Gunilla ^a   Norén, Anders ^a   De Faire, Ulf ^a,b   Wahren, John ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Nicotine; Risk factors; Smokeless tobacco; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NICOTINE; PLANTS, TOXIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 0030876034     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(97)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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