Urinary cotinine as an objective measure of cigarette smoking in chronic kidney disease
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Cigarette smoking, cotinine, and blood pressure.
T he primary coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors are often positively correlated in that many persons who have undesirable levels of one also have undesirable levels of others. Nevertheless, we should not lose sight of risk factors that tend to be inversely related, such as cigarette smoking and blood pressure. A lower mean blood pressure among cigarette smokers than See p 1309 nonsmokers...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm075