Does baseline smoking status and intensity affect clinical outcomes following acute myocardial infarction?
Smoking does not confer a protective effect after AMI, and higher smoking intensity is associated with worse clinical outcomes.
Smoking had no beneficial effect on the clinical outcomes following an AMI. Moreover, for those who smoked, clinical outcomes tended to deteriorate as smoking intensity increased.
Oh et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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