Pulmonary and cardiovascular consequences of smoking.
review · Level V
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Abstract
The extensive worldwide disease burden attributable to tobacco smoking is reviewed, with particular attention to the epidemiologic and clinical aspects, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and pathophysiology of a variety of smoking-related pulmonary diseases, and the epidemiology and clinical presentation of smoking-related atherosclerotic disease as it affects the cardiovascular system cerebral circulation, the aorta, and the peripheral arterial tree.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Lung Diseases
- Smoking
- Tobacco Smoke Pollution