Association of daily tar and nicotine intake with incident myocardial infarction: Results from the population-based MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study 1984 - 2002

• Main Authors: Meisinger Christa (Author), Wichmann H-Erich (Author), Ladwig Karl-Heinz (Author), Baumert Jens (Author), Zhang Qiu-Li (Author), Döring Angela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cigarette smoking has been shown to be one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. However, little is known about cumulative effects of daily tar and nicotine intake on the risk of incident myocardial infarcti...