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Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease [1]

Submitted by mferguson [2] on Tue, 2019-08-20 21:41

It's never too late to quit.  Among heavy smokers, smoking cessation resulted in a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease within five years of quitting (hazard ratio 0.61), although their risk remained elevated compared to never smokers.

Source name: 
JAMA
Resource link: 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2748507?guestAccessKey=dbe5732… [3]
Taxonomy: 
Cardiac - Other [4]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [5]
Vascular [6]
Author(s): 
Meredith S. Duncan, Matthew S. Freiberg, Robert A. Greevy Jr, Suman Kundu, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Hilary A. Tindle
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Cardiac [7]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/association-smoking-cessation-subsequent-risk-cardiovascular-disease

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/association-smoking-cessation-subsequent-risk-cardiovascular-disease [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/mferguson [3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2748507?guestAccessKey=dbe57326-835e-4732-89a9-272e2a183fac&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=082019 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/tags/cardiac-other [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/endovascular [7] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/cardiac