Journal of Vascular Medicine & Surgery

Pharmacy Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  The Smoking Paradox: A Twist in the Tale of Vasospastic Angina
  Author(s): Matthew V. Tran, Eric Marceau, Pei-Yu Lee, Mark Chandy and Ian Y. Chen*
  
  Cigarette smoking is undoubtedly the single most important risk factor and trigger for vasospastic angina, a condition also known as Prinzmetal angina secondary to coronary artery vasospasm. Even decades before vasospastic angina was first described by Dr. Myron Prinzmetal and his colleagues in 1959, there had been suspected connections between smoking and coronary artery vasospasm in what was alluded to then as “tobacco angina.” The intimate relationship between smoking and vasospastic angina has since been extensively researched and validated through decades of epidemiological and clinical studies. The fact that smoking would aggravate vasospastic angina comes with very little surprise, as it has been shown to adversely impact many of the disease processes thought to underlie vasospastic angina, including autonomic dysfunction, endothelial dysfunctio.. View more»
  

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