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Master of Public Health

Smoking intensity [pack/day] is a better measure than pack-years or smoking status for modeling cardiovascular disease outcomes.

AUTHORS

Nance R , Delaney J , McEvoy JW , Blaha MJ , Burke G , Navas-Acien A , Kaufman JD , Oelsner EC , McClelland RL , . Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2016 10 18; ().

ABSTRACT

Smoking as an epidemiological exposure can be quantified in many ways including duration, intensity, pack-years, recency, and age at initiation. However it is not clear which of these are most important for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and how they should be modeled.

Smoking as an epidemiological exposure can be quantified in many ways including duration, intensity, pack-years, recency, and age at initiation. However it is not clear which of these are most important for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and how they should be modeled.

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