Light cigarette smoking impairs coronary microvascular functions as severely as smoking regular cigarettes

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1274-1277

  Gullu, Hakan ^a   Caliskan, Mustafa ^a   Ciftci, Ozgur ^a   Erdogan, Dogan ^a   Topcu, Semra ^a   Yildirim, Erkan ^a   Yildirir, Aylin ^a   Muderrisoglu, Haldun ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; TAR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NICOTINE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TARS;

EID: 34848873763     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.100255     Document Type: Article

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