Effects of Smoking on Long-Term Clinical Outcomes and Lung Cancer in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

CONCLUSIONS: In contrast to the unadjusted model, smoking is associated with worse cardiovascular outcome and higher incidence of lung cancer after adjustment of various confounding factors. This result can be explained by the characteristics of smokers, which were young and had fewer comorbidities.PMID:33821583 | PMC:PMC8022024 | DOI:10.4070/kcj.2020.0430

Source: Korean Circulation Journal - April 6, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Su Nam Lee Ik Jun Choi Sungmin Lim Eun Ho Choo Byung Hee Hwang Chan Joon Kim Mahn Won Park Jong Min Lee Chul Soo Park Hee Yeol Kim Ki Dong Yoo Doo Soo Jeon Ho Joong Youn Wook Sung Chung Min Chul Kim Myung Ho Jeong Youngkeun Ahn Kiyuk Chang Source Type: research