Key result
Cigarette smoking is a powerful risk factor for coronary artery disease and is suggested to affect platelet function, contributing to atherogenesis and thrombogenesis.
Why the study?
How does cigarette smoking affect platelet function and contribute to coronary artery disease?
How does cigarette smoking affect platelet function and contribute to coronary artery disease?
Cigarette smoking is a powerful risk factor for coronary artery disease, potentially mediated through its effects on platelet function and thrombogenesis.
Emphasizes smoking cessation in CAD prevention; confirms platelet role but leaves causal pathways open for trials.
It has been well established that cigarette smoking is a powerful risk factor for coronary artery disease. A number of epidemiologic studies have shown a strong association between cigarette smoking and atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and death from coronary artery disease. In addition to active smoking, passive smoking can also carry a risk of coronary artery disease. Although the detailed mechanism through which cigarette smoking is associated with cardiovascular disease has not yet been clarified, it is suggested that cigarette smoking is related to thrombogenesis, as well as atherogenesis, and blood platelet behavior is thought to be prominent among the proposed mechanisms involved in atherogenesis and thrombogenesis. The following is a review of evidence that cigarette smoking affects platelet function.
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Teruo Inoue (2004) conducted a review in Coronary artery disease. Cigarette smoking was evaluated on Platelet function. Cigarette smoking is a powerful risk factor for coronary artery disease and is suggested to affect platelet function, contributing to atherogenesis and thrombogenesis.
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