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- Title
Stenosis of Carotid Arteries and Concentration of Some Blood Lipid Parameters amongst Tobacco Smokers in Abha: A Case–Control Study.
- Authors
Alelyani, Magbool; Al-Saleem Alshahrani, Safar Abadi Saeed; Zaman, Gaffar Sarwar; Hadadi, Ibrahim; Musa, Mustafa Jafar; Adam, Mohamed; Mohammed, Mohammed Elimam Ahamed; Galli, Stefano; Govorunova, Elena G.
- Abstract
Smoking is well known to be correlated with cardiovascular abnormalities, in particular atherosclerosis and heart diseases. This article investigates the effect and relationship of smoking tobacco on the thickness of the intima–media (IMT) belonging to the common carotid arteries (CCAs), and also blood concentration of the lipid profile (LP), mainly the total cholesterol, High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) and also triglycerides. Nineteen male tobacco smokers and thirty-five healthy male non-smoking Saudi participants were involved in this study after obtaining their informed consent. An ultrasound and a spectrophotometer were used to determine the IMTs and lipid parameters, respectively. The thicknesses of the smokers' right (RCA) and left carotid (LCA) arteries (0.72 and 0.7 mm, respectively) were significantly greater than the thicknesses of the arteries of the non-smokers (0.58 and 0.62 mm, respectively) (p-value = 0.005 and 0.04). Insignificant differences between the means of the other parameters in the two groups were studied. Smoking is a risk factor for stroke, because it significantly increases the IMTs of both the right and left carotid arteries.
- Subjects
BLOOD lipids; ARTERIAL stenosis; CAROTID intima-media thickness; CAROTID artery; TOBACCO; NICOTINE
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 5, p2001
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app11052001