Endothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers

Smoking is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory neoplasms and diseases, and will kill more than one billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking induced endothelial dysfunction triggers a new alarm for this social custom, which in connection with metabolic syndrome, who has reached alarming rates of prevalence in recent years, contributes specifically to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study we aimed to evaluate more parameters of endothelial dysfunction in smokers patients, indicating a high statistical significance of the influence of smoking on arterial stiffness.

Abstract licence: CC BY

A person counts once a day per paper. We keep no cookie and no address: a reader is a hash that changes every day. Any month under five reads shows no number.