Publications by authors named "B Kastens"
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- Data shows that 12%-22% of women smoke during pregnancy, leading to various health issues for both mothers and babies.
- Great Start is a targeted public education and smoking cessation program launched in 2001, offering free counseling to pregnant women via a quitline.
- The program's evaluation shows success in reaching pregnant smokers through TV ads that are positive and informative, confirming the demand for dedicated cessation support for this demographic.
The clinical course of congestive heart failure (CHF) and mitral valve stenosis (MVS) is accompanied by episodes of dyspnea, wheezing, and cough, symptoms also observed in patients with bronchial hyperreactivity. However, it is still controversial whether bronchial hyperreactivity is demonstrable in patients with chronic overload of the pulmonary circulation. In order to examine the effects of CHF on the respiratory function, we performed pulmonary function tests, titrated bronchial acetylcholine provocations, and left and right heart catheterization in 21 patients with impaired left ventricular function (mean ejection fraction, 37 percent, NYHA class 3), 5 patients with MVS, and 17 control patients with coronary artery disease (mean ejection fraction, 63 percent).
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