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Cigarette Smoking Increases White Blood Cell Aggregation in Whole Blood

Author(s) -

A. Bridges,

Alexander J. Hill,

J. J. F. Belch

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689308600307

Subject(s) - medicine , pathogenesis , white blood cell , white (mutation) , white wine , red blood cell , physiology , pathology , immunology , biology , biochemistry , food science , gene , wine

We studied the effect of chronic cigarette smoking on white blood cell aggregation, increased aggregation predisposes to microvascular occlusion and damage. Current smokers had significantly increased white blood cell aggregation when compared with non smokers. The presence of chronically activated white blood cells in current smokers may be relevant in the pathogenesis of ischaemic vascular disease.

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