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SUBMITTER: Funamoto M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7897701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Funamoto Masafumi M Shimizu Kana K Sunagawa Yoichi Y Katanasaka Yasufumi Y Miyazaki Yusuke Y Komiyama Maki M Yamakage Hajime H Satoh-Asahara Noriko N Takahashi Yuko Y Wada Hiromichi H Hasegawa Koji K Morimoto Tatsuya T
Circulation reports 20191130 12
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Smoking exerts detrimental effects during the progression of atherosclerotic vascular disease. Serum cystatin C is useful in the evaluation of early renal dysfunction and serves as a cardiovascular prognostic marker. This study measured changes in serum cystatin C after smoking cessation (SC). <b><i>Methods and Results:</i></b> In this study, patients who visited the SC clinic for the first time and succeeded in SC for 1 year were enrolled. In the entire cohort of 86 pa ...[more]