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Relationship of Cigarette Smoking With Inflammation and Subclinical Vascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.


AUTHORS

McEvoy JW , Nasir K , DeFilippis AP , Lima JA , Bluemke DA , Hundley WG , Barr RG , Budoff MJ , Szklo M , Navas-Acien A , Polak JF , Blumenthal RS , Post WS , Blaha MJ , . Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 2015 3 5; ().

ABSTRACT

We sought to assess the impact of smoking status, cumulative pack-years, and time since cessation (the latter in former smokers only) on 3 important domains of cardiovascular disease: inflammation, vascular dynamics and function, and subclinical atherosclerosis.


We sought to assess the impact of smoking status, cumulative pack-years, and time since cessation (the latter in former smokers only) on 3 important domains of cardiovascular disease: inflammation, vascular dynamics and function, and subclinical atherosclerosis.


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