Smoking, smoking cessation, [corrected] and risk for symptomatic peripheral artery disease in women: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking has a well-documented detrimental effect on risk for myocardial infarction and stroke, but less information is available regarding peripheral artery disease (PAD), particularly among women.

Objective

To prospectively assess the association of current smoking status, cumulative smoking exposure, and smoking cessation with incident symptomatic PAD in women.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

U.S. female health care professionals in the Women's Health Study.

Participants

39,825 women with no cardiovascular disease who were prospectively followed for a median of 12.7 years.

Measurements

Incidence of symptomatic PAD. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare PAD risk across smoking categories.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Conen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3111942 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature