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BMC CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12872-021-02056-9
Keywords
Smoking paradox; CABG; Left ventricular dysfunction; Propensity matched
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- 13th Five-year National Science and Technology Major Project of China [2016YFC1300900]
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The study found that current smokers had lower in-hospital mortality rates compared to non-smokers, while there was no significant difference in mortality between ex-smokers and non-smokers.
BackgroundData on the effect of smoking on In-hospital outcome in patients with left ventricular dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery are limited. We sought to determine the influence of smoking on CABG patients with left ventricular dysfunction.MethodsA retrospective study was conducted using data from the China Heart Failure Surgery Registry database. Eligible patients with left ventricular ejection fraction less than 50% underwent isolated CABGS were included. In addition to the use of multivariate regression models, a 1-1 propensity scores matched analysis was performed. Our study (n=6531) consisted of 3635 smokers and 2896 non-smokers. Smokers were further divided into ex-smokers (n=2373) and current smokers (n=1262).ResultsThe overall in-hospital morality was 3.9%. Interestingly, current smokers have lower in-hospital mortality than non-smokers [2.3% vs 4.9%; adjusted odds ratio (OR) 0.612 (95% CI 0.395-0.947) ]. No difference was detected in mortality between ex-smokers and non-smokers [3.6% vs 4.9%; adjusted OR 0.974 (0.715-1.327)]. No significant differences in other clinical end points were observed. Results of propensity-matched analyses were broadly consistent.ConclusionsIt is paradoxically that current smokers had lower in-hospital mortality than non-smokers. Future studies should be performed to further understand the biological mechanisms that may explain this 'smoker's paradox' phenomenon.
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