European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2005
European Heart Journal 2006 27(4):382-383; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi679
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Protecting Europeans from secondhand smoke: time to act
1Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite J, Berkeley, CA 94702, USA
2University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-1390, USA
* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 415 476 3893; fax: +1 415 514 9345. E-mail address: glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu
This editorial refers to Secondhand smoke as an acute threat for the cardiovascular system: a change in paradigm
by T. Raupach et al., on page 386
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Raupach et al.1 provide a concise review of the effects of secondhand smoke on the cardiovascular system that complements recent reviews2,3 to synthesize the clinical and experimental evidence that secondhand smoke has rapid and large effects on platelet activation, endothelial function, and myocardial oxygen balance. The effects of secondhand smoke on these important mediators of cardiac function are both direct and indirect, acting through vascular inflammation, and changes in autonomic function. As these changes affect long-term risks, such as developing atheroschlerotic heart disease, most of the effect is
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