Why the study?
Do the adrenal glands and sympathetic nervous system mediate the free fatty acid response to cigarette smoking?
Population
19 subjects total: 11 subjects who smoked, and 8 patients who had previously undergone bilateral…
Comparison
Cigarette smoking, with sympathetic ganglionic… vs Control determinations of smoking response…
Design
Other
Follow-up
3 hours
Authors
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Smoking-induced FFA rise may require sympathetic-adrenal integrity; leaves open relevance to current cardiometabolic risk models.
Do the adrenal glands and sympathetic nervous system mediate the free fatty acid response to cigarette smoking?
Both the adrenal glands and the sympathetic nervous system are required for cigarette smoking to induce an increase in serum free fatty acids.
Kershbaum et al. (1963) studied this question.
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