Effect of Avena sativa on Cigarette Smoking

The Acute Effect of Cigarette Smoking on QT Dispersion

Background: Cigarette smoking has several known detrimental effect on cardiovascular system.  QT dispersion (QTd) is among the important predictors of cardiac death. Objective:  To assess the acute effect of smoking of a single standard cigarette on QT and QTc (corrected QT) dispersion, hence on the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in healthy smokers and non-smokers. Methods: 111 healthy men wit...

Assessment Report on Avena Sativa L., Herba and Avena Sativa L., Fructus

Effect of Cigarette Smoking

The effect of smoking on the heart has been a controversial subject. The present studies were undertaken to investigate the effect of cigarette smoking on the coronary flow, myocardial usage of oxygen and myocardial extraction of glucose, pyruvate, lactate, and ketones. Catheterization of the coronary sinus revealed that cigarette smoking in patients without heart disease results in a significa...

Effect of cigarette smoking on intraocular pressure.

postoperative corneal sensitivity; however, no signifi­ cant changes were detected in the intergroup compar­ isons. (4) Group B had an 8.2% reduction in ECC, significantly higher than in the rest of the groups (Group A1: 4.8%; Group A2: 5.0%). (5) Endothelial cell loss showed linear correlation with CDE (Group B: r Z 0.47; Group A2: r Z 0.81; both P ! .01) (Figure 1). (6) Group A2 patients had ...

Effect of cigarette smoking on gastric emptying.

Gastric emptying after a test meal was studied in 17 normal volunteers--10 habitual smokers and seven non-smokers. The solid component of the test meal was labelled with technetium and the liquid component with indium. After one meal the habitual smokers smoked two cigarettes. Emptying curves were produced for both technetium and indium, and the differences between curves for meals with and wit...