Association of smoking cessation and weight change with cardiovascular disease among adults with and without diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Smoking cessation reduces the risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but weight gain that follows quitting smoking may weaken the CVD benefit of quitting.

Objective

To test the hypothesis that weight gain following smoking cessation does not attenuate the benefits of smoking cessation among adults with and without diabetes.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective community-based cohort study using data from the Framingham Offspring Study collected from 1984 through 2011. At each 4-year examination, self-reported smoking status was assessed and categorized as smoker, recent quitter (≤ 4 years), long-term quitter (>4 years), and nonsmoker. Pooled Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the association between quitting smoking and 6-year CV

SUBMITTER: Clair C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3791107 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature