Light smoking may increase sudden cardiac death risk in women
Even women who are are considered light-to-moderate smokers have a significantly increased risk of sudden cardiac death, new research suggests. But, quitting for less than five years may help them lower that risk by quite a bit. New research published on Dec. 11 in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology, an American Heart Association Journal, showed that women who smoked one to 14 cigarettes a day were twice as likely to die from their heart ceasing to function. The longer a woman smoked, the higher their risk. "Cigarette smoking is a known risk factor for sudden cardiac death, but until now, we didn't know how the quantity and duration of smoking effected the risk among apparently healthy women, nor did we have long-term follow-up," study author Dr. Roopinder K. Sandhu, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Alberta's Mazankowski Heart Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, said in a press release.
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Light, moderate female smokers were found to be twice as likely to die from sudden cardiac death than non-smokers
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