Smoking and acute coronary heart disease: a comparative study.
Open Access
- 1 December 1988
- Vol. 60 (6), 465-469
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.60.6.465
Abstract
Nine hundred and seventy eight patients with a first documented myocardial infarction were studied to detect smoking related differences in clinical profile and in-hospital outcome. The distribution of infarct sites differed significantly between smokers and non-smokers. Smokers had higher peak cardiac enzyme concentrations. In spite of this, smokers had a better prognosis than non-smokers. There are important differences between smokers and non-smokers, both in clinical profile and in-hospital outcome, which may reflect a difference in the nature of the underlying coronary disease.Keywords
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