NEW ORLEANS (if). Fears that the use of nicotine patches may affect specifically for weaning smokers agree with coronary artery disease, the heart blood flow, have been invalidated by a new study. After using nicotine replacement patch is also in these patients a safe option.
U.S. researchers at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston, Texas have been studied in a controlled study of 55 smokers, the effects of nicotine replacement therapy with nicotine patches on myocardial perfusion. For all study participants were using imaging method (SPECT) myocardial perfusion defects detected at baseline.
The subjects received in the first week of nicotine or placebo patch, but smoked more initially. After another SPECT study, they were then encouraged to give up in the next three weeks to smoking. It was followed by another perfusion.
During the first week was in the group with nicotine patches, a significant increase in nicotine levels observed in the blood. Nevertheless, it resulted in no increase in exercise-induced myocardial ischemia, reported Dr. Monica Leya in New Orleans.
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