Smoking may be harmful to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, mainly including its can lead to atherosclerosis, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease and so on.
1. Atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease: smoking will damage the endothelial function of blood vessels, thus causing atherosclerotic changes, narrowing the lumen of blood vessels, arterial blood flow obstruction, triggering a variety of cardiovascular and cerebral vascular diseases including atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and so on. At the same time, nicotine in tobacco can directly act on coronary arteries and myocardium, causing arterial spasm and myocardial damage.
2. Stroke, peripheral arterial disease: nicotine in tobacco can directly damage the wall of blood vessels, resulting in thrombosis, leading to stroke, peripheral arterial disease and so on. Smoking also affects other risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as elevated blood glucose, obesity and other synergistic effects, further harm to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, peripheral arteries.
Smoking can damage the cardiovascular and cerebral vessels through many ways, and produce different degrees of harm to the cardiovascular and cerebral vessels. Smoking cessation can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is necessary for the maintenance of vascular health and improves the prognosis of the disease.