| Title | Pulmonary and cardiovascular consequences of smoking. | | Author(s) | Kamholz SL | | Institution | Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA. skamholz@nshs.edu | | Source | Clin Occup Environ Med 2006; 5(1):157-71, x. | | MeSH | Cardiovascular Diseases
Humans
Lung Diseases
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Smoking
Tobacco Use Disorder
| | 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. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
Review
| | PubMed ID | 16446260 |
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