Cigarette Smoking, Systolic Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Diseases in the Asia-Pacific Region | Zendy

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Cigarette Smoking, Systolic Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Diseases in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author(s) -

Koshi Nakamura,

Federica Barzi,

TH Lam,

Rachel Huxley,

Valery L. Feigin,

Hirotsugu Ueshima,

Jean Woo,

Dongfeng Gu,

Takayoshi Ohkubo,

Carlene M.M. Lawes,

Il Suh,

Mark Woodward

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.496752

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , cardiology , asia pacific , business , international trade

Smoking and increased levels of blood pressure (BP) substantially increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). If these 2 risk factors have a synergistic impact on cardiovascular events, lowering BP and quitting smoking will contribute more to reducing CVD than would be expected from ignoring their interaction.

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