Bliley PM
Buerger's Disease
Abstract
Questions assertions that cigarette smoking causes Buerger's Disease. Notes that even though a large percentage of those with the disease also smoke cigarettes, not enough is known about the disease to claim causation. Argues that claims that Buerger's Disease rates are rising with the prevalence of smoking are "not consistent with the observation of a professor of medicine that 'when the total number of heavy smokers in the general population is considered, the actual number in whom [Buerger's Disease] develops is exceedingly small." Adds that the rates of the disease in women are extremely low even though their smoking rates have increased. Mentions that many diseases have similar symptoms as Buerger's Disease and the increased rates may be due to misdiagnosis. Argues that other factors may be involved in developing the disease, such as genetics or the environment. Includes bibliographic references.
Fields
- Company
- Philip Morris Cos., Inc.
- Type
- Report
- Named Person
- Adar, R.
- Arsov, V.
- Bahvad, A.
- Brataamadja, D.
- Buerger, L.
- Bujanic, J.
- Cohem, B.M.
- Cotton, R.C.
- Cravem, J.L.
- Dayan, M.
- DeBakey, M.E.
- Freiman, D.G.
- Grouhi, M.
- Gurewich, V.
- Halpern, Z.
- Herman, B.E.
- Hill, G.L.
- Jones, C.D.P.
- Juergens, J.L.
- Lessani, M.
- Lie, J.T.
- Lotina, S.
- Marandian, M.H.
- Marcovic, A.
- Mills, J.L.
- Ming, S.C.
- Moeliomo, J.
- Morris-Jones, W.
- Mozes, E.
- Mozes, M.
- Ohta
- Papa, M.Z.
- Porter, J.M.
- Rakchan, M.
- Saboury-Deilami, M.
- Shionoya
- Shoshan, S.
- Silbert, S.
- Smith, J.F.
- Sofer, B.
- Stojanovic, V.K.
- Taylor, L.M.
- Tohardi, A.
- Tumewu, F.
- Wessler, S.
- Zinger, H.
- Named Organization
- Mayo Clinic
- United States Army
- Region
- Tennessee
- England
- United States
- Minnesota
- Keyword
- A Critical Evaluation of Thromboangiitis Obliterans: The Case Against Buerger's Disease
- American Journal of Medical Sciences
- American Journal of Surgery
- Angiology
- Atherosclerosis
- British Journal of Surgery
- Buerger's Disease
- Buerger's Disease in the Modern Era
- Buerger's Disease in Women: A Report of a Case and a Review of the Literature
- Buerger's Disease: A Follow-Up Study of World War II Army Cases
- Buerger's Syndrome
- Causal
- Cellulary Sensitivity to Collagen in Thromboangiitis Obliterans
- Clinical Course and Therapy of Buerger's Disease
- Etiology of Thromboangiitis Obliterans
- Fate of the Ischaemic Limb in Buerger's Disease
- Genetics
- Haematological Differences Between Thromboangiitis Obliterans and Atherosclerosis
- Jouranl of Cardiovascular Surgery
- Journal of the American Medical Association
- Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association
- Laboratory Investigation
- Medicine
- Misdiagnosis
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Pathology Annual
- Pediatrie
- Peripheral Vascular Diseases
- The Buerger Syndrome in Java: A Description of the Clinical Syndrome and Some Aspects of its Aetiology
- The Cirulatory Distrubances of the Extremities: Including Gangrene, Vasomotor, and Trophic Disorders
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- The Rise and Fall and Reemergence of Buerger's Disease, Especially in Women
- The Use of Unsmoked Tobacco and Intermittent Claudication
- Thromboangeite Obliterante et Gangrene Distale Chez Un Enfant De 5 Ans (Thromboangiitis Obliterans and Distal Gangrene in a Five-Year-Old Child
- Thromboangiitis obliterans
- Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger's Disease ) in Women
- Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger's Disease) Revisited
- Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger's Disease, TAO)
- Thromboangiitis Obliterans: A Study of the Vascular Lesions Leading to Presenile Sjpontaneous Gangrene
- Thesaurus Term
- disease
- smoker
- socioeconomic status
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Ergotism
- Scleroderma
- Periarteritis nodosa
- female
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