TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronary Heart Disease among Female Smokers
AU - Gantt, Rebecca C.
AU - Lincoln, Jetson E.
AU - Perkins, Kenneth A.
AU - Willett, Walter
AU - Stampfer, Meir
AU - Speizer, Frank
AU - Colditz, Graham
AU - Monson, Richard
AU - Stason, William
AU - Rosner, Bernard
AU - Hennekens, Charles
PY - 1988/5/26
Y1 - 1988/5/26
N2 - To the Editor: Although age and consumption intervals overlap, the relative risks of coronary death among smokers and nonsmokers reported by Willett et al. (Nov. 19 issue)1 in a study of 119,404 female nurses (ages 30 to 55), with a six-year follow-up that began in 1976, are clearly higher than those among the women followed for six years in the even larger 25-state study2 that began in 1959. For example, Willett et al. report that among women smoking more than 25 cigarettes a day, the relative risk is 5.4, whereas the earlier data indicate that the relative risk among women.
AB - To the Editor: Although age and consumption intervals overlap, the relative risks of coronary death among smokers and nonsmokers reported by Willett et al. (Nov. 19 issue)1 in a study of 119,404 female nurses (ages 30 to 55), with a six-year follow-up that began in 1976, are clearly higher than those among the women followed for six years in the even larger 25-state study2 that began in 1959. For example, Willett et al. report that among women smoking more than 25 cigarettes a day, the relative risk is 5.4, whereas the earlier data indicate that the relative risk among women.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198805263182113
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198805263182113
M3 - Letter
C2 - 3367942
AN - SCOPUS:0023880606
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 318
SP - 1396
EP - 1397
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 21
ER -