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International authoritative medical journals: quitting smoking can significantly reduce this high-risk disease.
Meredith S. Duncan, a research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed the relationship between smoking cessation and cardiovascular risk. Related papers were published in the Journal of American Medical Association published on August 20, 2009+2065438.

The research team prospectively collected data from the Framingham Heart Study. In this retrospective analysis, there were 3805 original participants (1954- 1958) and 4965 follow-up participants (197 1- 1975). All participants had no cardiovascular disease before joining the group.

In this study, heavy smokers are defined as smoking at least one pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years or more.

The average age of 8770 participants was 42.2 years old, 45% were male, and 5308 people smoked. The average smoking age was 17.2 years old, of which 237 1 were heavy smokers. After a median follow-up of 26.4 years, * * * 2435 participants had CVD events, including 1095 heavy smokers.

The incidence of CVD per 65,438+0,000 person-years in five years for those who quit smoking was 6.94%, which was significantly lower than that of those who did not quit smoking (65,438+0.56%). After quitting smoking 10- 15 years, the annual incidence of CVD per 1000 people is 6.3 1%, which is still higher than that of never smokers (5.09%).

Among heavy smokers, those who quit smoking within 5 years have significantly lower CVD risk than those who have not quit smoking, but they are still higher than those who have never smoked.

Text | China Science News Xiaoke Robot