Active and passive smoking and the risk of myocardial infarction in 24,968 men and women during 11 year of follow-up: the Tromsø Study

• DOI: 10.1007/s10654-013-9785-z
• Publication Date: 2013-02-26T07:23:19Z
• Authors: Birgitte Iversen; Bjarne K. Jacobsen; Maja-Lisa Løchen
• Keywords: Passive smoking

Active smoking is a well-established risk factor for myocardial infarction, but less known about the impact of passive smoking, and possible sex differences in related to smoking. We investigated active as factors infarction an 11-year follow-up 11,762 men 13,206 women included Tromsø Study. There were total 769 453 incident cases women, respectively. found linear age-adjusted relationships between both incidence sexes. The seem be stronger than men. Age-adjusted analyses indicated relationship with ever-smokers never-smokers. After adjustment important confounders (body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol, HDL cholesterol physical activity) associations still statistically significant. Adjusting when assessing effect vice versa, that may explained by their own In living smoker ≥30 years after age 20 increased 40 %, even adjusting Passive on its own, whereas seems females remains