Open AccessEndothelial dysfunction assessment in healthy smokers
Author(s) -
Adriana Ticărău,
Dumitru Matei
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
romanian journal of medical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6108
pISSN - 1842-8258
DOI - 10.37897/rjmp.2016.2.8
Subject(s) - endothelial dysfunction , medicine , arterial stiffness , disease , metabolic syndrome , risk factor , intensive care medicine , environmental health , cardiology , obesity , blood pressure
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.