Effect of Smoking Status on the Long-Term Outcome after Successful Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization
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- 13 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 336 (11), 755-761
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199703133361103
Abstract
Cigarette smoking is known to be deleterious to patients with coronary artery disease, but the effect of smoking on the clinical outcome of percutaneous coronary revascularization is unknown.Keywords
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