{"id":368385,"date":"2021-11-17T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stroke-survivors-less-likely-than-cancer-survivors-to-have-quit-smoking-says-new-study\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T10:00:02","slug":"stroke-survivors-less-likely-than-cancer-survivors-to-have-quit-smoking-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stroke-survivors-less-likely-than-cancer-survivors-to-have-quit-smoking-says-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stroke survivors less likely than cancer survivors to have quit smoking, says new study"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stroke survivors less likely than cancer survivors to have quit smoking, says new study<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Stroke survivors were more likely to continue cigarette smoking than cancer survivors, raising the risk that they will have more health problems or die from a subsequent stroke or heart disease, according to new research published today in\u00a0Stroke<\/i>, a journal of the American Stroke Association.\n <\/p>\n

“The motivation for this study was the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Moonshot initiative that includes smoking cessation among people with cancer. We were curious to understand smoking among people with stroke and cardiovascular disease,” said Neal Parikh, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and a neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. “In part to assess whether a similar program is necessary for stroke survivors, our team compared smoking cessation rates between stroke survivors and cancer survivors.”<\/p>\n

The investigators analyzed data collected between 2013 and 2019 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a national health survey that collects information regarding chronic health conditions and health-related behaviors annually.<\/p>\n

Researchers analyzed data from 74,400 respondents who reported having a prior\u00a0stroke\u00a0and a history of\u00a0smoking\u00a0(media<\/a>n age of 68 years; 45% women; 70% non-Hispanic white), and 155,693 respondents who identified as cancer survivors with a history of smoking (median age of 69 years; 56% women; 81% non-Hispanic white). Previous smoker status was defined as having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

After adjusting for demographic factors and the presence of smoking-related medical conditions, researchers found that:<\/p>\n