Publications
Medication use during preconception, pregnancy and lactation: towards safe and rational use enhanced by community pharmacists' counseling KU Leuven
The effect of nicotine patches on craving in the brain Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Smoking is a common phenomenon and kills over 6 million people every year. Many smokers try to quit smoking by using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Most of the time, relapse occurs in less than six months after finishing the program of NRT. We performed a single blinded study in which our aim was to figure out what the effect of the nicotine patch is on craving in the brain of smokers deprived from smoking.
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Nicotine does not compromise resting myocardial blood flow autoregulation in smokers at high cardiovascular risk Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nicotine has been recognized for years as being pharmacologically responsible for the sympathoexcitatory effects of smoking. The effects of nicotine supplementation on myocardial blood flow as assessed by positron emission tomography are, however, unknown. We tested the hypothesis that nicotine substitution could interfere with myocardial blood flow autoregulation at rest in habitual smokers at risk of coronary artery disease. The short-term ...