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Relationship of predominantly mild current smoking to out-of-office blood pressure in a community sample in Africa
- Source :
- Journal of Hypertension. 29:854-862
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011.
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Abstract
- Objectives As the impact of mild smoking on blood pressure (BP) is uncertain, we assessed the relationship between predominantly mild current smoking and out-of-office BP and the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) genotype on this relationship in a community sample of black African ancestry. Methods In 689 participants randomly recruited from an urban, developing community of black African descent, we assessed smoking habits, out-of-office (24-h), and in-office conventional and central (applanation tonometry) BP, and ACE insertion (I)/deletion (D) variant genotype. Results A total of 14.5% (n = 100) were current smokers, the majority being mild (72%, 7.4 ± 4.6 cigarettes/day). Despite current smokers having only modest increases in in-office (P
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Applanation tonometry
medicine.medical_specialty
Ambulatory blood pressure
Genotype
Physiology
Blood Pressure
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
Overweight
Internal medicine
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
business.industry
Smoking
Odds ratio
Middle Aged
Confidence interval
Surgery
Blood pressure
Africa
Ambulatory
Female
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 02636352
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Hypertension
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f9ba560c6ee39eeb7750a2f21805fc54