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Blessings Wiyeh Fanka

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  Tobacco Education: Reduced Risk for Peripheral Artery Disease
  Author(s): Blessings Wiyeh Fanka and Susan ChaneyBlessings Wiyeh Fanka and Susan Chaney
  
  Peripheral arterial (vascular) disease (PAD/PVD) in its association with significant mortality and morbidity rates has become a significant public health concern. One of the most influential risk factors for PAD is tobacco use, which carries a 3-4-fold increase d risk for PAD often presenting as severe disease. The diagnosis of PAD is usually made a decade earlier in smokers than nonsmokers. The amputation rates in patients with PAD who smoke is twice higher than those that have never smoked. Smoking elevates the risk for PAD several folds and approximately 90% of persons with PAD have a history of smoking. Although the precise mechanism by which chronic smoking induces vascular disease is not entirely understood, growing evidence shows that impairment of endothelial morphology and function plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of vascular disease. Oxidants, delivered by cigarette .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2165-8048.19.9.303

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