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Smoking, ulcerated coronary plaques, and smoker's paradox: A new hypothesis
2020
Zenodo
Smoking accelerates the onset of acute coronary disease. Smoker's paradox is the term applied to the observations that the short-term prognosis following an acute myocardial infarction is better in the smoker than in the nonsmoker. Efforts to explain these surprising observations have not been successful. The approach used in this study was to compare the pathologic findings in the coronary arteries following a complete histologic examination of the major branches of the epicardial coronary
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4421496
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