Long term effect on mortality of stopping smoking after unstable angina and myocardial infarction

British Medical Journal

Volumn 287, Issue 6388, 1983, Pages 324-326

  Daly, L E ^a   Mulcahy, R ^a   Graham, I M ^a   Hickey, N ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NONSMOKER; PREVENTION; SMOKING; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0020538544     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.287.6388.324     Document Type: Article

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