TABARCA According to the study, the prognosis for smokers is more unfavorable than nonsmokers to suffer an acute coronary syndrome.
The study has analyzed TABARCA 825 patients admitted to 42 hospitals throughout Spain for myocardial infarction, of which half were smokers and the other not.
The results reflect the influence of snuff on cardiovascular complications in patients admitted to hospital for an acute coronary syndrome. It was also found that mortality among people aged 75 years suffering acute myocardial infarction, stood at 19% in smokers and 5.8% in nonsmokers. “It is the duty of all to continue raising awareness among smokers that snuff is harmful to the heart, because the study also reflected that after three months of a heart attack, 27% of smokers continued to smoke and that this figure increased to 29 after a year, “says Pilar Mazon, president of the Section of Hypertension Blood of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
The high blood pressure (hypertension) is the major cardiovascular risk factor. In Spain more than 60% of people over 65 are hypertensive and are therefore more likely to have atrial fibrillation, which is the cardiac arrhythmia most frequently. This issue will be one of the main to be addressed at the meeting which will last until Saturday that the SEC held in Madrid every year.
