Indian heart journal
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Indian heart journal · Nov 2019
Correlation of urinary cotinine with cardiovascular risk factors in pan masala tobacco users.
Tobacco consumption is considered as one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) morbidity. However, the effect of paan masala tobacco (PMT) (a type of smokeless tobacco) consumption has not been well studied in our context. Our study is aimed to find an association of CV risk factors between PMT users and nonusers and to correlate those parameters with urinary cotinine level, a degradation product of nicotine occurring in tobacco. ⋯ PMT use has an adverse effect on CV risk parameters and there is a rational of cotinine measurement for screening CV risk among PMT users.