ArticleBMJ open2011
The extension of smoke-free areas and acute myocardial infarction mortality: before and after study.
Article in BMJ open, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of Population-Level Tobacco Control Interventions and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- The effect of smoke-free legislation on the mortality rate of acute myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- Legislative smoking bans for reducing harms from secondhand smoke exposure, smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Association between smoke-free legislation and hospitalizations for cardiac, cerebrovascular, and respiratory diseases: a meta-analysis.Circulation · 2012Pooled it
- Longitudinal Impact of the Smoking Ban Legislation in Acute Coronary Syndrome Admissions.BioMed research international · 2017Article
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- The association of tobacco control policies and the risk of acute myocardial infarction using hospital admissions data.PloS one · 2014Article
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- The impact of smoke-free legislation on fetal, infant and child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.BMJ open · 2013Article
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- Smoking restrictions and hospitalization for acute coronary events in Germany.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivesRecent studies suggest that comprehensive smoking regulations to decrease exposure to second-hand smoke reduce the rates of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The objective of this paper is to analyse if deaths due to AMI in Spain declined after smoking prevention legislation came into force in January 2006.
designInformation was collected on deaths registered by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística for 2004-2007. Age- and sex-specific annual AMI mortality rates with 95% CIs were estimated, as well as age-adjusted annual AMI mortality rates by sex. Annual relative risks of death from AMI were estimated with an age-standardised Poisson regression model.
resultsAdjusted AMI mortality rates in 2004 and 2005 are similar, but in 2006 they show a 9% decline for men and a 8.7% decline for women, especially among those over 64 years of age. In 2007 there is a slower rate of decline, which reaches statistical significance for men (-4.8%) but not for women (-4%). The annual relative risk of AMI death decreased in both sexes (p < 0.001) from 1 to 0.90 in 2006, and to 0.86 in 2007.
conclusionThe extension of smoke-free regulations in Spain was associated with a reduction in AMI mortality, especially among the elderly. Although other factors may have played a role, this pattern suggests a likely influence of the reduction in population exposure to second-hand smoke on AMI deaths.
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