Mons, U;
Müezzinler, A;
Gellert, C;
Schöttker, B;
Abnet, CC;
Bobak, M;
de Groot, L;
... CHANCES Consortium, .; + view all
(2015)
Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium.
BMJ
, 350
, Article h1551. 10.1136/bmj.h1551.
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Abstract
To investigate the impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular mortality, acute coronary events, and stroke events in people aged 60 and older, and to calculate and report risk advancement periods for cardiovascular mortality in addition to traditional epidemiological relative risk measures.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.h1551 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1551 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | Age Factors, Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Europe, Female, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, North America, Proportional Hazards Models, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Stroke |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470818 |
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