OPCS Smoking and renal artery stenosisCigarette smoking appears to be commoner in patients with malignant- phase hypertension than in the general population or in patients with non-malignant hypertension.1 2 We have also found an excess of smokers among premenopausal women with hypertension and ischaemic heart disease.3We report a study of the smoking habits of 85 hypertensive patients with renal artery stenosis.* P <005.t P <0 01.+ P <0 001.NS= Not significant: P >0 05.
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