Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of death. The aetiology of this disease is not known, but many important risk factors have been recognised.To evaluate the effect of smoking on age at the time of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), and to examine this finding in the light of medical literature.The authors recruited patients immediately after CABG in a prospective, study in 16 centres and enrolled 408 patients, of which 395 were ultimately analysed.Among the 395 patients analysed, there were 60 smokers and 335 non-smokers. The smokers were 8.4 years younger than non-smokers at the time of index CABG. The average age of smokers was 55.79.0 years, and that of non-smokers was 64.1±9.9 years (p<0.001). Hyperlipidaemia was present in 76.7

作者：Rashid, Chaudhry；Fahd A, Chaudhry；Thao, Huynh；Ellis, Lader；Saira, Rashid；Karen, Okrainec；Karen, Wou；Mark J, Eisenberg

来源：Heart Asia 2010 年 2卷 1期