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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 118, No. 4: 480-488
Copyright © 1983 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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SMOKING AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN WOMEN1

TRUDY L. BUSH2 and GEORGE W. COMSTOCK3,

2Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
3Training Center for Public Health Research, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, P.O. Box 2067, Hagerstown, MD 21740

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Bush, T. L and G. W. Comstock (Training Center for Public Health Research, Johns Hopkins U. School of Hygiene and Public Health, P.O. Box 2067, Hagerstown, MD 21740). Smoking and cardiovascular mortality in women. Am J Epidemiol 1983; 118: 480–8.

Smoking status and soclodemographlc characteristics were recorded for 23, 572 white women 25–74 years of age in a private census of Washington County, Maryland, done in 1963. Deaths from all causes, from total and sudden arterlosclerotic heart disease, and with stroke were recorded for the next 12 years. Smoking-spocific mortality rates for women aged 25–44, 45–64, and 65–74 years at entry were calculated after adjustment for the effects of marital status, education, housing quality, and frequency of church attendance. Among women in the 65–74-year age group, smoking was not related to mortality. Among women in the two younger age groups, the risks of dying from any cause and from arterlosclerotlc heart disease (total and sudden) were positively associated with cigarette smoking. For all arterlosclerotlc heart disease deaths, the relative risks associated with smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day were 3.6 and 2.2 for women aged 25–44 and 45–64, respectively; for sudden deaths from arteriosclerotic heart disease, the relative risks were 6.5 and 2.7. The risk of dying with stroke was not associated with cigarette smoking.

cardiovascular diseases; coronary disease; mortality; smoking; women

1From the Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD.


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