Arterial Compliance and Autonomic Functions in Adult Male Smokers

Growth in utero, adult blood pressure, and arterial compliance.

OBJECTIVES To examine the relation between disproportionate fetal growth and adult blood pressure and to investigate whether arterial compliance in adult life is related to early development. DESIGN A follow up study of a group of men and women whose birth weights and other measurements of body size had been recorded at birth. SETTING Home and outpatient study. SUBJECTS 337 men and women ...

Percentile curves for present teeth in smokers and non-smokers in an adult male population.

The purpose of this study was to obtain percentile curves for present teeth in smokers and non-smokers for use in oral health education. Dental examinations were carried out by two dentists. The number of present teeth in each subject was counted, excluding the third molars. Subjects consisted of 2,283 men aged between 25 and 54 years enrolled in the health insurance union of a bank in Yokohama...

Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity and Cotinine Levels of Saliva in Male Smokers and Non-smokers

Background: The cigarette compounds are associated with the increase in the incidence of oral cancer andprecancerous lesions. Salivary antioxidant system plays an important role in anti-carcinogenic capacity ofsaliva. Cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, has a longer half-life in comparison with nicotine and is a suitablemarker for exposure to cigarette smoke. This study aims to measure total antio...

Effects of Heat Stress on Arterial Compliance in Smokers: A Pilot Study

The Effect of Smoking on the Autonomic Heart Regulation in Young “healthy” Male Smokers

http://www.journal-imab-bg.org / J of IMAB. 2015, vol. 21, issue 1/ Summary: The aim of our study was to compare the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity between young “healthy” male smokers and non-smokers via the method of heart rate variability (HRV). Pulse oximetry, blood pressure, time and frequency domain and non-linear HRV parameters were measured in 21 healthy non-smoker males aged 2...