Passive Smoking and Cardiovascular Pathology : Mechanisms and Physiopathological Bases of Damage

The contents of the present volume focus on the relationship between passive smoking and cardiovascular pathology. Findings concerning the harmful effects of passive smoking, namely isolated or public exposure to someone else's smoking, began in the 1970's. This new and significant book reflects the current views on the relationship between cardiovascular pathology and passive smoking providing the main achievements obtained with the findings on the subject. The book presents the factors that influence negatively both a normal and diseased heart and blood vessles of nonsmokers exposed to environmental smoking by means of different chapters structured with a sequence that begin from normal patterns until reaching the final step: irreversible damage of the heart and blood vessles.