Effects of Timing and Extent of Smoking, Type of Cigarettes, and Concomitant Risk Factors on the Association Between Smoking and Subclinical Atherosclerosis
Author(s) -
Damiano Baldassarre,
S. Castelnuovo,
B. Frigerio,
Mauro Amato,
José Pablo Werba,
A. de Jong,
A. Ravani,
Elena Tremoli,
Cesare R. Sirtori
Publication year - 2009
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.108.543413
Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , nicotine , population , concomitant , tar (computing) , diabetes mellitus , cohort , environmental health , endocrinology , computer science , programming language
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of timing and extent of smoking, type of cigarettes, and concomitant vascular risk factors (VRFs) on the association between smoking and carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) in a lipid clinic population.
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