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Age at quitting smoking as a predictor of risk of cardiovascular disease incidence independent of smoking status, time since quitting and pack-years

BACKGROUND: Risk prediction for CVD events has been shown to vary according to current smoking status, pack-years smoked over a lifetime, time since quitting and age at quitting. The latter two are closely and inversely related. It is not known whether the age at which one quits smoking is an additi...

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Main Authors: Mannan, Haider R, Stevenson, Christopher E, Peeters, Anna, Walls, Helen L, McNeil, John J
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047421/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21324145
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-39
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