Influence of cigarette smoking on coronary artery and aortic calcium among random samples from populations of middle-age Japanese and Korean men

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is a risk factor of coronary heart disease (CHD). Vascular calcification such as coronary artery calcium (CAC) and aortic calcium (AC) is associated with CHD. We hypothesized that cigarette smoking is associated with coronary artery and aortic calcifications in Japanese...

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Hauptverfasser: Hirooka, Nobutaka, Kadowaki, Takashi, Sekikawa, Akira, Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Choo, Jina, Miura, Katsuyuki, Okamura, Tomonori, Fujiyoshi, Akira, Kadowaki, Sayaka, Kadota, Aya, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Maegawa, Hiroshi, Kashiwagi, Atsunori, Masaki, Kamal, Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim, Kuller, Lewis H., Curb, J. David, Shin, Chol
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2012
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521870/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844083
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2011-200964
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