Influence of the Smoking on Blood Circulation: Evaluation of Arteriosclerosis Based on the Pulse Wave Analysis

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  • Shinohara Aiko
    Department of Science of Environment and Mathematical Modeling, Doshisha University
  • Kaname Yuki
    Department of Science of Environment and Mathematical Modeling, Doshisha University
  • Matsuda Masafumi
    Health center, Doshisha University

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  • 喫煙が血液循環に及ぼす影響 ―脈波解析による動脈硬化評価―
  • キツエン ガ ケツエキ ジュンカン ニ オヨボス エイキョウ ミャクハ カイセキ ニ ヨル ドウミャク コウカ ヒョウカ

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Objective: Smoking is a habitual behavior of many people and lifestyle including smoking strongly influences on the health. Smoking is harmful to the health. It causes and worsens many diseases, especially vascular diseases by injuring the blood vessels. So, it is important for young smokers to stop smoking. We intended to evaluate the influence of smoking on the blood vessels by the acceleration plethysmograms (APGs) of arteries and to study the usefulness of this method to analyze the elasticity of arteries. Methods: The APGs of the digital arteries of 95 healthy students,20 females(2 smokers and 18 non-smokers) and 75males(27 smokers and 48 non-smokers) were recorded and parameters derived from them were analyzed. Results: There were no significant differences between the parameters of the APGs of the smokers and non-smokers. Wave patterns of the APGs were stable and fitted for the quantitative analysis. Conclusions: The APGs were not significantly different between the smokers and non-smokers. But, the pulse wave analysis based on the APGs gave us the impression that it was useful and convenient for the evaluation of the arteriosclerosis.

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