Research view

Title: Cardiovascular risk factors: smoking in the context of recent events in Lebanon
Author: Chahine R.
Abstract:
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that cigarette smoking increases the incidence of myocardial infarction and sudden death. Psychological and physical stress, like smoking, activates the sympathetic adrenal medullary and pituitary-adrenal cortical
Journal: Sante. 1998 Mar-Apr;8(2):109-12.