Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 43
Number 1, Januar, 2004
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478

 

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INFLUENCE OF SMOKING ON CAROTID ARTERIES IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
 

Milan Đorić, Branko Lović i Ivan Tasić

Institut za prevenciju, lečenje i rehabilitaciju reumatičkih i srčanih bolesnika „Niška Banja’’ u Niškoj Banji

    According to generally adopted opinion about smoking as an important factor in genesis and evolution of atherosclerotic disease, we studied, using colo Doppler echosonography, changes on carotid arteries in hypersensitive patients having history of disease at least 10 years. Our study included 34 patients with arterial hypertension,out of whom 22 were smokers whereas 10 were nonsmokers. We analyzed structural changes in carotid arteries, which can be seen in results, and concluded that smoking as a risk factor had influence on the development of arthrosclerotic changes, which is proportional to „smoking history" and a number of smoked cigarettes. Acta Medica Medianae 2004; 43(1):19–21.