Smoking accelerates implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks: encouraging patients to quit a bad habit.
Hiroshi
H
Tada
D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000628:therapy; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D004554:Electric Countershock; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000628:therapy