Trial reportBritish heart journal1985
Effect of smoking habits and timolol treatment on mortality and reinfarction in patients surviving acute myocardial infarction.
Trial report in British heart journal, 1985. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Observational
- Informal care and health behaviors among elderly people with chronic diseases.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2017Article
- Health behaviour changes after diagnosis of chronic illness among Canadians aged 50 or older.Health reports · 2012Article
- Health behavior change following chronic illness in middle and later life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2012Article
- The association among depressive symptoms, smoking status and antidepressant use in cardiac outpatients.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2009Article
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Abstract
The Norwegian Multicenter Group Study noted the effect of smoking habits before and after myocardial infarction and their relation to mortality and reinfarction rate after treatment with timolol in patients surviving acute myocardial infarction. The mean follow up period was 17.3 (range 12-33) months. No relation was found between initial smoking habits and risk category after infarction or between initial smoking habits and later outcome. At the time of their first infarct smokers were seven years younger than non-smokers. One moth after infarction nearly 60% of the smokers had stopped smoking completely. A significantly lower incidence of early cardiac death and lower total mortality was found in patients treated with timolol in both those who continued smoking and in the combined non-smoking groups and a significantly lower reinfarction rate among non-smokers. Cessation of smoking alone was associated with a reduced reinfarction rate by 45% but a non-significant reduction in mortality by 26%. It is concluded that treatment with timolol and cessation of smoking have an additive effect in reducing mortality and reinfarction rate after myocardial infarction.
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