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Effects of acute cigarette smoking on endothelium-dependent arterial dilatation in normal subjects
J Lekakis1, C Papamichael, C Vemmos
1Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|May 30, 1998
Abstract:
The effects of acute cigarette smoking on endothelial function were evaluated in the brachial artery of 10 nonsmoking healthy subjects. Endothelial dysfunction observed after cigarette smoking is a phenomenon lasting at least 60 minutes and does not appear to be attenuated with repeat exposure.