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Quitting smoking can give heart disease patients nearly five additional years of life without heart problems, according to ...

For patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the treatment benefit of smoking cessation is equivalent to the use of targeted pharmaceutical interventions in persistent smokers.

The health benefits of quitting smoking after a heart attack or bypass surgery may be similar to those of a course of three different medications, scientists estimate.

For patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the treatment benefit of smoking cessation is equivalent to the use of targeted pharmaceutical interventions in persistent smokers.

Dutch researchers found the benefits to the heart of giving up the habit could be larger than previously thought. The study tracked around 990 smokers who had recently had a heart attack.

Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology.

Adherence to lifestyle advice and medications could add seven healthy years of life after a heart attack, according to a study presented at ESC Congress 2021.

Adherence to lifestyle advice and medications could add seven healthy years of life after a heart attack, according to a study presented at ESC Congress...

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