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Relationship of current and past smoking to mortality and morbidity in patients with left ventricular dysfunction

Neville Suskin, MSc, MBChB, FRCP(C), FACC, Tej Sheth, MD^*, Abdissa Negassa, PhD^* and Salim Yusuf, MBBS, DPhil, FRCP(C), FACC^*

^* Division of Cardiology, McMaster Clinic, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Division of Cardiology, London Health Science Center, London, Ontario, Canada

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Relative risk (RR) of events by smoking status adjusted for baseline characteristics. RR never-smoker = 1. *p < 0.05, current smokers versus ex-smokers of 2 years versus ex-smokers of >2 years versus never-smokers. Open box = hospitalization due to heart failure; hatched box = myocardial infarction; solid box = mortality.