Smoking bans reduce heart attack admissions

Asthma admissions, smoking bans and administrative databases.

We read with great interest the recent paper by Sims et al, wherein they identified a clinically and statistically significant reduction in admissions with asthma following the implementation of a workplace smoking ban in the UK, independent of prevailing temporal trends and other measureable confounding factors. We welcome this important addition to the evidence base in this area, and endorse ...

Smoking bans prevent heart attacks.

describe a reduction in hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction in Pueblo, Colo, after the implementation of a city-wide smoking ordinance. The ordinance, which was strictly enforced, prohibited smoking in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, and in all buildings open to the public. The findings in Pueblo confirm a similar assessment of the consequences of a public smoking b...

Asthma admissions, smoking bans and administrative databases: author's response.

Smoking Bans Linked To Fewer Heart Attacks

N E W O R L E A N S — The best predictors of in-hospital deterioration of patients diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department are a shock index greater than 1 and a pulmonary embolism severity index score more than 100, according to data from the EMPEROR registry. The clinical implications: Calculate the pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI) and shock index routinely...

Public smoking bans are good for the heart.

r p A e n this time of health care reform debate in the U.S., it is ashionable to focus on what is wrong. Unmentioned is rguably the most important health triumph in the past 50 ears: the steep decrease in deaths from cardiovascular disease 1–3). Between 1950 and 2005, the age-adjusted, all-age death ate from heart disease decreased from 587 per 100,000 persons o 211 per 100,000, a spectacular ...