Treadmill exercise testing in asymptomatic chronic smokers to detect latent coronary heart disease.
Indian Heart J
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1989 Jan-Feb; 41(1): 62-5
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-4470
ABSTRACT
The treadmill exercise test has been performed in 50 chronic smokers and 50 non-smokers (93 males and 7 females) who were not having any clinical or electrocardiographic manifestation of ischemic heart disease. The test was positive in 18% chronic smokers and 4% in non-smokers, the chances of positivity of stress test was 4-5 times greater in chronic smokers than in non-smokers. The duration of smoking and number of/cigarettes/bidis smoked per day were directly proportional to the incidence of a positive stress test. There was no significant difference in the incidence of a positive exercise test amongst purely cigarette smokers (17.64%), purely bidi smoker, (16.16%), and in both bidi and cigarette smokers (20%). The study, therefore, suggests that chronic heavy smoking is more frequently associated with asymptomatic ischemic heart disease, as compared to non-smokers and stress testing of persons with coronary risk factors important for detection of latent IHD.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Smoking
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Adult
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Coronary Disease
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Exercise Test
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Middle Aged
Type of study:
Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian heart j
Year:
1989
Type:
Article
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