Why the study?
Does waterpipe smoking acutely affect blood pressure and heart rate?
Does waterpipe smoking acutely affect blood pressure and heart rate?
Waterpipe smoking for as little as 15 minutes causes acute increases in systolic blood pressure and heart rate.
Clinicians should discourage even brief waterpipe use; leaves open prospective outcome trials.
Waterpipe smoking for duration as short as 15 min has acute hemodynamic effects and significantly increases systolic BP and HR.
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Azar et al. (2016) studied this question.
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