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Is there evidence for a "smoker's paradox" in contemporary populations with acute coronary syndrome?
Is there evidence for a "smoker's paradox" in contemporary populations with acute coronary syndrome?
The "smoker's paradox" is a historical artifact not observed in contemporary acute coronary syndrome populations.
Smoker's paradox absent in contemporary ACS; confirms historical artifact, irrelevant to modern risk models.
The "smoker's paradox" was observed in some studies of AMI patients in the pre-thrombolytic and thrombolytic era, whereas no studies of a contemporary population with acute coronary syndrome have found evidence for such a paradox.
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