Smoking, Smoking Cessation, and Measures of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Multiple Vascular Beds in Japanese Men

Smoking, Smoking Cessation, and Measures of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Multiple Vascular Beds in Japanese Men

Background Smoking is an overwhelming, but preventable, risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), although smoking prevalence remains high in developed and developing countries in East Asia. Methods and Results In a population‐based sample of 1019 Japanese men aged 40 to 79 years, without CVD,...

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Main Authors: Takashi Hisamatsu, Katsuyuki Miura, Hisatomi Arima, Aya Kadota, Sayaka Kadowaki, Sayuki Torii, Sentaro Suzuki, Naoko Miyagawa, Atsushi Sato, Masahiro Yamazoe, Akira Fujiyoshi, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Takashi Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Murata, Robert D. Abbott, Akira Sekikawa, Minoru Horie, Hirotsugu Ueshima, the Shiga Epidemiological Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis (SESSA) Research Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
atherosclerosis
coronary artery calcification
cumulative pack‐years exposure
prevention
smoking
smoking cessation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003738

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https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003738

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