Active and passive smoking, chronic infections, and the risk of carotid atherosclerosis: Prospective results from the Bruneck Study

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2170-2176

  Kiechl, Stefan ^a   Werner, Philipp ^a   Egger, Georg ^b   Oberhollenzer, Friedrich ^b   Mayr, Manuel ^c   Xu, Qingbo ^c   Poewe, Werner ^a   Willeit, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b BRUNECK HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cigarette smoking; Infection; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0036713353     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000027209.59821.98     Document Type: Article

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