Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Disease

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Cardiovascular Disease: Facial Wrinkling and "Smokers Face"

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Smokers have significantly more elastosis in their facial skin than nonsmokers; this

increased elastotic material may cause the gray hue and prominent wrinkling

associated with "smoker's face."

Skin and Allergy News, December 1999

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Characteristics of "smoker's face" include increased wrinkling, gauntness, and

discoloration. An increase in elastotic material, or elastosis, may contribute to the

clinical features of "smoker's face."

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 41:23, 1999

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