A new study shows smoking raises blood pressure even at low levels. Urine tests reveal the real exposure behind the habit.

How long nicotine stays in your system depends on factors like smoking frequency. Antioxidants from food like garlic can ...

Tobacco smoking is associated with an increased risk of hypertension (high blood pressure), a new UM study has found, and ...

SAN DIEGO, California — Plasma and urinary cotinine measures predict poor outcome in renal transplant recipients in a dose-dependent fashion, researchers reported here at Kidney Week 2012: American ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We examined the prevalence and level of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure using urine cotinine levels in children and three types of ...

Recent reports have shown that although the percentage of women smoking during pregnancy has decreased to only 10% in the United States in 2004 (1,2), estimated smoking-attributable neonatal ...

Many teens who use e-cigarettes aren’t aware they are inhaling nicotine when they vape, even though they are often taking in high levels of the addictive substance, a new study suggests. Researchers ...

Hanna Kędziora, Ewa Florek, Wojciech Piekoszewski, Grzegorz H. Bręborowicz, Andrzej Anholcer, Ewa Gomółka, Maksymilian Kulza, Artur Stanek ...