Lead, Cadmium, Smoking, and Increased Risk of Peripheral Arterial Disease

Oxidative mechanisms in the toxicity of metal ions

1995 • 4,127 citations

Peripheral Arterial Disease Detection, Awareness, and Treatment in Primary Care

2001 • 2,710 citations

Ankle-arm index as a marker of atherosclerosis in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Cardiovascular Heart Study (CHS) Collaborative Research Group.

1993 • 1,167 citations

The Less Harmful Cigarette: A Controversial Issue. A Tribute to Ernst L. Wynder

2001 • 730 citations

Calibration and random variation of the serum creatinine assay as critical elements of using equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate

2002 • 715 citations

The decline in blood lead levels in the United States. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)

1994 • 710 citations

The Decline in Blood Lead Levels in the United States

1994 • 531 citations

Cadmium in blood and urine--impact of sex, age, dietary intake, iron status, and former smoking--association of renal effects.

2002 • 414 citations

Predisposition to Atherosclerosis in the Head, Heart, and Legs

1972 • 339 citations

Blood Lead Levels and Mortality

2002 • 326 citations

Environmental Lead Exposure and Progression of Chronic Renal Diseases in Patients without Diabetes

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An epidemiological re-appraisal of the association between blood pressure and blood lead: a meta-analysis

2002 • 241 citations

Peripheral arterial disease detection, awareness, and treatment in primary care

2002 • 191 citations

Lead Differentially Modifies Cytokine Productionin Vitroandin Vivo

1996 • 187 citations

Screening for Peripheral Arterial Disease: The Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Value of Noninvasive Tests in a Defined Population

1994 • 175 citations

Lead promotes hydroxyl radical generation and lipid peroxidation in cultured aortic endothelial cells

2000 • 170 citations

Atherosclerosis and hypertension induction by lead and cadmium ions: an effect prevented by calcium ion.

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The Relationship of Cadmium in the Air to Cardiovascular Disease Death Rates

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Managing elevated blood lead levels among young children : recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

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Blood Lead as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor

1992 • 101 citations

The relationship between blood lead, blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks in middle-aged British men.

1988 • 95 citations

CADMIUM-INDUCED RENAL LIPID PEROXIDATION IN RATS AND PROTECTION BY SELENIUM

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Public Health Implications of Environmental Exposure to Cadmium and Lead: An Overview of Epidemiological Studies in Belgium

1996 • 84 citations

Exposure to cadmium and conventional and ambulatory blood pressures in a prospective population study

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Prolonged low-level cadmium intake and atherosclerosis

1993 • 65 citations

Additive Statistical Effects of Cadmium and Lead on Heart Related Disease in a North Carolina Autopsy Series

1982 • 63 citations

Severe damage of cultured vascular endothelial cell monolayer after simultaneous exposure to cadmium and lead

1995 • 60 citations

Smoking and diabetes differ in their associations with subclinical atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease—the ARIC Study

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Role of nitric oxide synthase inhibition in the acute hypertensive response to intracerebroventricular cadmium

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Relationships between trace elements and atherosclerosis

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Blood cadmium and plasma zinc measurements in acute myocardial infarction.

1979 • 25 citations

Cigarette smoking and the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis — a hypothesis

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Blood cadmium in healthy subjects and in patients with cardiovascular diseases.

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Lead Accumulation in Highly Exposed Smelter Workers

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