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No acute effect of cigarette smoking on bleeding time of habitual smokers
1Department of Biochemistry, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Thrombosis Research
|November 15, 1988
Abstract:
To study the influence of cigarette smoking on blood platelet function, bleeding time was measured in two groups of 14 habitual smokers before and after a 20-minute period during which the subjects either smoked two cigarettes (experimental group) or rested (control group). The second bleeding time appeared to be slightly shortened upon cigarette-smoking (-0.1 min) and was found to be prolonged in the control group (+0.4 min). These changes did not differ significantly from each other (P = 0.38). Consequently, bleeding time of habitual smokers is not affected by smoking two cigarettes.