ArticleBritish medical journal (Clinical research ed.)1985
Does stopping smoking delay onset of angina after infarction?
Article in British medical journal (Clinical research ed.), 1985. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management angina. North of England Stable Angina Guideline Development Group.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996Guideline
- Drugs used in secondary prevention after myocardial infarction: case presentation.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2000Review
- Management of patients after their first myocardial infarction.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1994Review
- What determines mortality risk in male former cigarette smokers?American journal of public health · 1994Article
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- Routine use of beta-blockers following myocardial infarction: a note of dissent.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1987Article
- Course of angina pectoris after an acute coronary event.British medical journal (Clinical research ed.) · 1986Article
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Abstract
This study was designed to determine the relation between stopping smoking and angina after infarction in survivors of an acute coronary attack. The study population comprised 408 men aged under 60 who survived a first attack of unstable angina or myocardial infarction by 28 days and were smoking cigarettes at the time of their attack. These patients were followed up for an average of nine years. Three hundred and eighty four were alive at the one year follow up examination, when the presence or absence of angina together with habits of smoking were recorded. The prevalence of angina at one year was 19.5% in the 241 who had stopped smoking cigarettes compared with 32.2% in those who had continued (p less than 0.01). Six years later, however, the prevalence of angina after infarction was the same in the two groups. It is concluded that the onset of angina after infarction can be delayed by stopping smoking cigarettes but that this effect is not maintained in the long term.
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