Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2007
Joint effect of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption on mortality.
To evaluate the joint effect of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption on mortality. ⋯ Light and moderate alcohol consumption reduced mortality from CVD. This beneficial effect, however, was offset by cigarette smoking.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2007
Premenopausal risk factors for coronary and aortic calcification: a 20-year follow-up in the healthy women study.
It is important to understand the early development of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women to prevent costly morbidity and mortality associated with CVD events. ⋯ Premenopausal risk factors are strong predictors of postmenopausal CaC and AC. Clinical trials should test if reduction of premenopausal levels of risk factors reduces the risk of early calcification.