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Current Smoking Raises Risk of Incident Hypertension: Hispanic Community Health Study-Study of Latinos
Current smokers may have a high probability of becoming hypertensive.
This research work studied the connection between cigarette smoking and the likelihood of developing hypertension. Researchers analyzed 6-years worth of lifestyle and medical records extracted from US Hispanic adults.
Researchers observed that current smokers had an upward surge in blood pressure numbers. Evidence from this study showed that active cigarette smoking may give rise to hypertension.
Research Summary Information
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2021
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Robert C Kaplan, Pedro L Baldoni, Garrett M Strizich, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, Nancy L Saccone, Carmen A Peralta, Krista M Perreira, Marc D Gellman, Jessica S Williams-Nguyen, Carlos J Rodriguez, David J Lee, Martha Daviglus, Gregory A Talavera, James P Lash, Jianwen Cai, Nora Franceschini
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Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA. Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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