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Tests showing smokers their individual risk of future disease will help them quit, says paper
Published in Cardiovascular Week, March 1st, 2010
"Personalized risk assessment has been the mainstay of coronary artery disease prevention and has resulted in significant mortality reduction over the last decade," said Dr. Robert Young, lead author of the article. "Such an approach could be equally applied to smoking cessation, now that we have predictive risk assessment tools that identify those at greatest risk of lung-related illness from smoking."
Though about half of long-term smokers die from...
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Source: Cardiovascular Week (2010-03-01)
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