Does cigarette smoking increase the risk of LV hypertrophy, systolic dysfunction, and incident HF hospitalization in black individuals?
Cigarette smoking independently increases the risk of structural heart disease and heart failure hospitalization in black individuals.
In blacks, cigarette smoking is an important risk factor for LV hypertrophy, systolic dysfunction, and incident HF hospitalization even after adjusting for effects on coronary heart disease.
Kamimura et al. (Mon,) studied this question.