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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Chewing tobacco sends heart pounding
NEW DELHI: You thought that puffing away on cigarettes only could result in a racy heart?
A new research by doctors from India's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences has found that even chewing tobacco - as less as one gram - significantly raised heart rate.What was most significant among the findings was that when doctors asked patients with normal coronary arteries to chew tobacco in the catheterization laboratory, a striking transient narrowing of normal coronary arteries were visible even with the slightest chewing tobacco.
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 10:36 PM

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