Showing papers by "Luc M. Van Bortel published in 1993"
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TL;DR: In habitual smokers, smoking one cigarette causes short-term increases in arterial wall stiffness that might be harmful to the artery and increase the risk for plaque rupture, indicating that in acute cardiovascular events, smoking might be a more important risk than long-term effects for these acute ischemic events.
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