| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Other health problems: Wound Healing and Surgery |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| In a study of 500 outpatient surgery patients at the Medical College of Wisconsin in |
| Milwaukee, patients who smoked in the 24 hours before surgery had 20 times the risk |
| for myocardial ischemia, or inadequate oxygen supply to the heart. |
| Reuters, October 22, 1997 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Page 32 of 32 |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
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