-transparent.png){kind=logo}
In this study we investigated the acute effects of cigarette smoking on cardiac function during exercise in 12 normal young males. Radionuclide angiocardiography was used to assess cardiac performance at rest and during upright-bicycle exercise on two consecutive days. On the second day each subject smoked three cigarettes. Exercise studies were continued until 85% of age-predicted heart rate for an individual was achieved. At rest cigarette smoking induced significant increases in resting heart rate, blood pressure, and contractility and significant decreases in end-systolic volume and pulmonary transit time. Comparison of hemodynamic data during exercise before and after smoking showed the only significant change to be a decrease in pulmonary transit time. These results suggest that cigarette smoking in healthy young males does not significantly alter cardiac function during submaximal exercise.
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
June 1979,
Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
June 1992,
European heart journal,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
January 1977,
Archivos del Instituto de Cardiologia de Mexico,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
September 1988,
British heart journal,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
July 1959,
The Journal of clinical investigation,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
January 1985,
The American journal of cardiology,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
January 1982,
Cardiology,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
December 1971,
Chest,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
September 1985,
Journal of cardiography,
M J Behr, and
K H Leong, and
R H Jones
January 1986,
The Canadian journal of cardiology,
