Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2005 Sep;36(9):e74-6.
doi: 10.1161/01.STR.0000177475.30281.7f. Epub 2005 Aug 4.

Cigarette smoking among spouses: another risk factor for stroke in women

Adnan I Qureshi  1 , M Fareed K Suri, Jawad F Kirmani, Afshin A Divani
Affiliations

Cigarette smoking among spouses: another risk factor for stroke in women

Adnan I Qureshi et al. Stroke. 2005 Sep.

Abstract

Background and purpose: It is well known that passive exposure to cigarette smoking increases the risk of coronary events, but the effect on the risk of stroke is not well defined. We performed this study to determine the effect of cigarette smoking among spouses on the risk of developing stroke and ischemic stroke among a nationally representative sample of women.

Methods: We examined the association between history of smoking among spouses with the incidence of stroke in a national cohort of 5379 women who participated in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study.

Results: During a mean follow-up of 8.5 years, the risk was significantly increased for all strokes (relative risk, 5.7; 95% CI, 1.4 to 24) and ischemic stroke (relative risk, 4.8; 95% CI, 1.2 to 20) among cigarette-smoking women with a cigarette-smoking spouse compared with those with a nonsmoking spouse after adjusting for other cardiovascular risk factors.

Conclusions: The study provides new evidence linking spousal smoking to stroke.

PubMed Disclaimer

Substances