| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Disease |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Cardiovascular Disease: Stroke |
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| The relative risk of stroke among hypertensive smokers is five times that of smokers |
| without hypertension, and 20 times that of normotensive nonsmokers. The British |
| Regional Heart Study showed a relative risk for stroke of 3.7 in all current smokers. |
| British Medical Journal, October 10, 1998, p. 962 |
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| Page 22 of 22 |
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