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Does cigarette smoking affect the age of sudden death or the frequency of coronary thrombi in men experiencing a first clinical episode of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease?
Does cigarette smoking affect the age of sudden death or the frequency of coronary thrombi in men experiencing a first clinical episode of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease?
Heavy cigarette smoking is associated with a significantly earlier age of sudden death from a first episode of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.
Associated with earlier sudden death in first coronary events without thrombi correlation; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice implications.
A study was made of age, smoking habits, and frequency of recent coronary thrombi in 102 men who died suddenly of a first clinical episode of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. The average age at time of death was 16 years less in those who smoked cigarettes heavily than it was in the non smokers, while that in the lighter and former smokers was intermediate. The frequency of recent coronary arterial thrombi was 19% and revealed no correlation with smoking habits.
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