Unfavorable effect of smoking on the elastic properties of the human aorta

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-38

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,c   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Stratos, Costas ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^a   Marakas, Stelios ^a   Boudoulas, Harisios ^b   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Psychico   (Greece)

Author keywords

aorta; arteries; elasticity hemodynamics; smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; ELASTICITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0031014591     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.1.31     Document Type: Article

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