Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The time course of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk after smoking cessation is unclear. Risk calculators consider former smokers to be at risk for only 5 years.

Objective

To evaluate the association between years since quitting smoking and incident CVD.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from Framingham Heart Study participants without baseline CVD (original cohort: attending their fourth examination in 1954-1958; offspring cohort: attending their first examination in 1971-1975) who were followed up through December 2015.

Exposures

Time-updated self-reported smoking status, years since quitting, and cumulative pack-years.

Main outcomes and measures

Incident CVD (myocardial infarction, stro

SUBMITTER: Duncan MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6704757 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature