It may seem obvious but a new study shows that young women with healthy habits are less likely as they age to get coronary heart disease or go on to develop cardiovascular risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes. Andrea Chomistek and colleagues analyzed data from more than 88,000 women participating in…
No Surprise: Smoking and Sudden Cardiac Death Closely Tied
December 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
Although cigarette smoking has long been linked to cardiovascular (CV) disease and sudden cardiac death (SCD), the precise contribution of smoking, and the effect of smoking discontinuation, on SCD has not been clear. Now a new report from the Nurses’ Health Study published in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology provides new clarity about the relationship between smoking…
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