Smoking and Acute Myocardial Infarction among Women and Men: A Case–Control Study in Italy

Autor: Bosetti, Cristina, Negri, Eva, Tavani, Alessandra, Santoro, Luigi, La Vecchia, Carlo
Zdroj: Preventive Medicine; November 1999, Vol. 29 Issue: 5 p343-348, 6p
Abstrakt: Background.A few studies have compared the smoking-related risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among women and men from the same population. A clear assessment of AMI risk among female smokers is now of major public health importance, given the large number of women who smoke.
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