Interactive Tool: How Does Smoking Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack?
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Interactive Tool: How Does Smoking Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack?
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What does your score mean?
Your score will appear in values from 1% to 99%. If your score is Nonsmoker: 2% and Smoker: 6%, it means that for your age and gender 2 out of 100 nonsmokers compared with 6 out of 100 smokers will have a heart attack in the next 10 years. In this example, smokers are 3 times more likely than nonsmokers to have a heart attack in the next 10 years.
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October 21, 2008- Author:
- Robin Parks, MS
- Medical Review:
- Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
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