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4069159

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-1-6
pubmed:abstractText
We assessed the effect of quitting cigarette smoking on the incidence of nonfatal myocardial infarction in men under the age of 55 in a case-control study of 1873 men with first episodes of myocardial infarction and 2775 controls. For "current" smokers (men who had smoked in the previous year) as compared with those who had never smoked, the estimated relative risk of myocardial infarction, adjusted for age, was 2.9 (95 per cent confidence interval, 2.4 to 3.4). Among exsmokers (those who had last smoked at least one year previously), the relative-risk estimate declined to a value close to unity for those who had abstained for at least two years; the estimate was 2.0 (1.1 to 3.8) for men who had abstained for 12 to 23 months, and the estimates were about 1.0 for men who had abstained for longer intervals. The results were unchanged by allowance for multiple potential confounding factors. A similar pattern was apparent among exsmokers who had smoked heavily for many years; among those predisposed to a myocardial infarction because of family history, hypertension, or other risk factors; and among those with no apparent predisposition. The results suggest that the risk of myocardial infarction in cigarette smokers decreases within a few years of quitting to a level similar to that in men who have never smoked.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0028-4793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
313
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1511-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
The risk of myocardial infarction after quitting smoking in men under 55 years of age.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't