Coronary Artery Disease, Nicotine Addiction, and Depression: The Tragic Triad

Authors

  • Andreas Asimakos Intensive Care Medicine, Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens
  • Paraskevi Katsaounou Intensive Care Medicine, Evagelismos Hospital, Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v5i1%20Sup.349

Abstract

A great number of diseases are directly related to active smoking. In the recent years more and more malignant neoplasms were causally related to active smoking. Lung cancer is the “leader” of smoking-related neoplasm’s and the 3rd cause of death in high-income countries, followed by cancer of the oral cavity/pharynx, laryngeal, esophageal, stomach, pancreatic, kidney, bladder, cervical cancer, leukemia and other
malignant neoplasm’s. Among other diseases, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are also causally related to cigarette smoking. According to World Health Organization (WHO), 5 out of 6 leading causes of death world wide (Ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, COPD, lower respiratory infections trachea, bronchus, lung cancers) are smoke related... (excerpt)

Author Biography

Andreas Asimakos, Intensive Care Medicine, Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens

Specialty: Cardiology

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Vol. 5 No. 1 Sup (2010)

Section

Athens Cardiology Update 2010

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