Passive smoking and 20-year cardiovascular disease mortality among nonsmoking wives, Evans County, Georgia.
The association of passive smoking and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality was assessed in a cohort of 513 rural, married Black and White women who were disease-free and self-described as never-smokers at baseline in 1960. Over a 20-year period, 76 of 147 total deaths were attributed to CVD. Relative risk estimates adjusted for age, cholesterol, blood pressure, and body mass from proportional hazards models were 1.59 for CVD (95% CI = 0.99, 2.57) and 1.39 (CI = 0.99, 1.94) for all cause mortality among women with husbands who smoked cigarettes.
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Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
Croft
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Gerber
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Casper
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Hames
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005845:Georgia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012306:Risk; D012923:Social Class; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D044465:White People
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D002784:Cholesterol