Smoking and involvement of right coronary artery in ischemic heart disease

• Main Authors: Abhinav Rastogi (Author), Tejinder Talwar (Author), Pankaj Shah (Author), Nitin Gupta (Author), Vishal V. Singh (Author), Sajaad Manzoor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Al Ameen Medical College, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Smoking is an independent risk factor for ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. Smoking raise both heart rate and blood pressure, thus increasing myocardial oxygen demand, moreover it also decreases the dimension of coronary vessel and coronary blood flow. Inferior wa...