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- Title
Reduced admissions for acute myocardial infarction associated with a public smoking ban: matched controlled study.
- Authors
Seo, Dong-Chul; Torabi, Mohammad R
- Abstract
There has been no research linking implementation of a public smoking ban and reduced incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among nonsmoking patients. An ex post facto matched control group study was conducted to determine whether there was a change in hospital admissions for AMI among nonsmoking patients after a public smoking ban was implemented in Monroe County compared with Delaware County, Indiana without such a ban. Poisson analysis was conducted for 44 months of hospital admissions. A significant drop occurred in the number of admissions among nonsmoking patients in Monroe County after the ban whereas a nonsignificant decrease in the number of admissions occurred in Delaware County. The changes in the number of smoking-patient admissions before and after the ban were not significant.
- Publication
Journal of drug education, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 3, p217
- ISSN
0047-2379
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2190/DE.37.3.a