ArticlePostgraduate medical journal1985
Smoking and myocardial infarction: secondary prevention.
Article in Postgraduate medical journal, 1985. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Association of Smoking Cessation and Survival Among Young Adults With Myocardial Infarction in the Partners YOUNG-MI Registry.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- The association among depressive symptoms, smoking status and antidepressant use in cardiac outpatients.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2009Article
- Effect of physical activity after a cardiac event on smoking habits and/or Quetelet index.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2003Article
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- Ensuring a heart-healthy pilot population.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 1988Article
- Risk factor intervention and prognosis after acute myocardial infarction.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 1988Review
- Smoking--the doctor's opportunity.Postgraduate medical journal · 1985Article
- Smoking in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients: Observations from a Registry Heart Hospital, Qatar.Heart views : the official journal of the Gulf Heart AssociationArticle
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Abstract
This prospective study examines the question 'Is it too late to stop smoking cigarettes once you have had a myocardial infarction?' One hundred and nineteen cigarette smokers (90 men, 29 women) who survived their first myocardial infarction for one month were followed for five years or until their death if earlier. The age corrected mortality rate of men who continued to smoke cigarettes was 2.2 times the age corrected mortality rate of those who stopped smoking after their infarct. The women who continued to smoke had 2.4 times the age corrected mortality of those who stopped smoking. The age and sex corrected mortality rates for the combined group of men and women show that those who stopped smoking after their infarction have 55% of the mortality of those who continued to smoke (P less than 0.05). These results suggest that smoking is not merely a 'risk factor' for myocardial infarction but is also a causal factor whose effects can be avoided by both men and women after an initial myocardial infarction.
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