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Associations of cigarette smoking and burden of thoracic aortic calcification in asymptomatic individuals: A dose-response relationship

Smoking is known as a powerful predictor of pathological coronary atherosclerosis. Thoracic aortic calcification (TAC), an alternative marker for pathological atherosclerosis, has also been shown to be associated unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes. We aimed to investigate the dose-response relation...

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Autores principales: Tsai, Jui-Peng, Jan, Ya-Ting, Yun, Chun-Ho, Sung, Kuo-Tzu, Liu, Chuan-Chuan, Kuo, Jen-Yuan, Hung, Chung-Lieh, Wu, Tung-Hsin, Lin, Jiun-Lu, Hou, Charles Jia-Yin, Yeh, Hung-I, Bezerra, Hiram G., So, Aaron
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31917812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227680