Abnormal sympathetic nerve activity in women exposed to cigarette smoke: A potential mechanism to explain increased cardiac risk

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 305, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Middlekauff, Holly R ^a   Park, Jeanie ^b   Agrawal, Harsh ^a   Gornbein, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex control; Cardiac risk in women; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREMENOPAUSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX CONTROL; CARDIAC RISK IN WOMEN; TOBACCO;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84887580303     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00502.2013     Document Type: Article

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