REVIEW ER 'S CONCLUSIONS Quitting smoking is associated with a substantial reduction in risk of all-cause mortality among patients with CHD .
This 36 % risk reduction appears substantial compared with other secondary preventive therapies such as cholesterol lowering which have received greater attention in recent years .
The risk reduction associated with quitting smoking seems consistent regardless of differences between the studies in terms of index cardiac events , age , sex , country , and time period .
BACKGROUND Although the importance of smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease is beyond doubt , the speed and magnitude of risk reduction when a smoker with coronary heart disease quits are still subjects of debate .
OBJECTIVES To estimate the magnitude of risk reduction when a patient with CHD stops smoking .
Short- and long-term prognosis after coronary artery bypass grafting in relation to smoking habits.
We describe the 2- and 5-year prognoses following coronary artery bypass grafting ( CABG ) in relation to smoking habits among consecutive patients being operated on in western Sweden during a 3-year period . Among the 2,121 patients , 10.2 % admitted smoking at coronary angiography as compared with 7.5 % 2 years after CABG ( NS ) . Among smokers , the mortality during the subsequent 2 years was 8.9 % as compared with 6.5 % for exsmokers and 7.3 % for never smokers ( NS ) . During the 5-year follow-up , smokers had a mortality of 18.8 % as compared with 13.6 % for exsmokers and 12.5 % for never smokers ( p = 0.03 ) . When correcting for dissimilarities in previous history , smoking was a strongly significant independent ( p < 0.0001 ) predictor of 5-year mortality
REVIEW ER 'S CONCLUSIONS Quitting smoking is associated with a substantial reduction in risk of all-cause mortality among patients with CHD .
This 36 % risk reduction appears substantial compared with other secondary preventive therapies such as cholesterol lowering which have received greater attention in recent years .
The risk reduction associated with quitting smoking seems consistent regardless of differences between the studies in terms of index cardiac events , age , sex , country , and time period .
BACKGROUND Although the importance of smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease is beyond doubt , the speed and magnitude of risk reduction when a smoker with coronary heart disease quits are still subjects of debate .
OBJECTIVES To estimate the magnitude of risk reduction when a patient with CHD stops smoking .