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After aSAH, smoking and hypertension were associated with worse survival. The earlier and opposite findings are likely explained by inadequate risk factor measurement and by survival bias inherent to hospital-based risk factor studies lacking information on out-of-hospital deaths confirmed by autopsy.
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