Best estimates of coronary risk of passive smoking are needed

PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN

Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospi...

passive smoking and the risk of coronary heart disease among married non-smoking women

several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (ps) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. this study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and ps among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east iran. using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of ps, a hospitalba...

Passive cigarette smoking increases risk of coronary heart disease.

Despite the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease during recent decades, it is still the leading cause of death in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. In 1996 an estimated 476 124 residents of the United States died of coronary heart disease, representing more than one in every five persons who died in that year. In many economically developing countries, mortality from coro...

[Smoking and coronary disease: smoking cessation is the best drug].

Passive smoking and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: prospective study with cotinine measurement.

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between a biomarker of overall passive exposure to tobacco smoke (serum cotinine concentration) and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. DESIGN Prospective population based study in general practice (the British regional heart study). PARTICIPANTS 4729 men in 18 towns who provided baseline blood samples (for cotinine assay) and a detailed smoking ...