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Cigarette smoking exposure and heart failure risk in older adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Compo...

Cigarette smoking exposure and heart failure risk in older adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Compo...

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Cigarette smoking exposure and heart failure risk in older adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study

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Full title

Cigarette smoking exposure and heart failure risk in older adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study

Publisher

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Journal title

The American heart journal, 2012-08, Vol.164 (2), p.236-242

Language

English

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Publisher

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

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Contents

Background Although there is evidence linking smoking and heart failure (HF), the association between lifetime smoking exposure and HF in older adults and the strength of this association among current and past smokers is not well known. Methods We examined the association between smoking status, pack-years of exposure, and incident HF risk in 2,12...

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Full title

Cigarette smoking exposure and heart failure risk in older adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3417038

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3417038

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ISSN

0002-8703

E-ISSN

1097-6744

DOI

10.1016/j.ahj.2012.05.013

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