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Researchers from Swansea University detail findings in clinical physiology

Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, February 13th, 2010

According to recent research from Wales, "Many smokers attempt to quit without using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or pharmacotherapy, i.e. 'cold-turkey'. The cardiac implications of this are important but are incompletely understood."

"Previous studies have associated smoking cessation with improvements in heart rate (HR) and its variability, but its influence on QT time-series is unclear. Furthermore, the relative influence on these parameters of acute nicotine withdrawal and of NRT has not been adequately compared. Additional insight might come from analysing the dynamic (e.g. fractal) properties of electrocardiographic data during different levels of nicotine...

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