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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158:1123-1124.
Copyright © 2003 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "SHAVING, CORONARY HEART DISEASE, AND STROKE: THE CAERPHILLY STUDY"

Gerald B. Phillips

Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10019

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In a recent prospective study, Ebrahim et al. (1) reported the striking finding that men who shaved less often than daily (infrequent shaving) had a 52 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality over 20 years than men who shaved daily (frequent shaving), after adjustment for age. They concluded that the association of infrequent shaving with CVD mortality was "probably due to confounding by smoking and social class" (1, p. 238); however, they found a significantly increased risk of stroke events among infrequent shavers compared with frequent shavers even after adjusting for these and other variables. Furthermore, they reported similar relations of infrequent shaving with CVD mortality and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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