Does smoking cessation reduce subclinical atherosclerosis in multiple vascular beds in Japanese men?
Smoking is strongly associated with subclinical atherosclerosis across multiple vascular beds, but this risk attenuates over time following smoking cessation.
Cigarette smoking was strongly associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in multiple vascular beds in Japanese men, and these associations attenuated with time since cessation.
Hisamatsu et al. (Tue,) studied this question.