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RE: A link between cigarette smoking and heart failure?
Is there any explanation of the mechanisms ? Or it was just statistical ? Smoking can indeed cause hypertension by thickening the arterial walls thus cardiac hypertrophy,but in this case the link would be indirect.
Yeah, this study was mostly statistical.
"Is there any explanation of the mechanisms ? Or it was just statistical ?" I was going to ask same myself. An interesting research nevertheless.