Clearing the air on the "smoker's paradox"

Affiliations

¹ Herbert and Sandi Feinberg Interventional Cardiology and Heart Valve Center at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York. Electronic address: akirtane@columbia.edu.
² Herbert and Sandi Feinberg Interventional Cardiology and Heart Valve Center at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York.

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Editorial

Ajay J Kirtane et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

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. 2015 Mar 24;65(11):1116-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.01.012.

¹ Herbert and Sandi Feinberg Interventional Cardiology and Heart Valve Center at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York. Electronic address: akirtane@columbia.edu.
² Herbert and Sandi Feinberg Interventional Cardiology and Heart Valve Center at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York.

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Keywords: acute coronary syndrome(s); coronary artery disease; smoking; tobacco.

Comment on

Smoking is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients undergoing revascularization with PCI or CABG: the SYNTAX trial at 5-year follow-up.
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