Why the study?
Does cigarette smoke exposure exacerbate ventricular remodeling and dysfunction in a rat model of volume overload?
Does cigarette smoke exposure exacerbate ventricular remodeling and dysfunction in a rat model of volume overload?
Cigarette smoke exacerbates ventricular remodeling and dysfunction in volume-overloaded hearts by disrupting compensatory mechanisms.
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May exacerbate volume-overload remodeling in this model; hypothesis-generating for human HF and should not yet change practice.
Bradley et al. (2011) studied this question.
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