Myocardial infarction in men. Role of physical activity and smoking in incidence and mortality

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Abstract
The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York study of coronary heart disease involves a defined population of 110,000 adult men and women. In the first 18 months of the study, 301 men suffered an Initial myocardlal infarction, with a 4-week case fatality rate of 32%. The focus of interest in the current report is the relationship of smoking habits and customary level of physical activity at time of infarction to both incidence and early mortality. Age-adjusted incidence rates are presented for smokers and nonsmokers of differing physical activity levels. Smokers exhibit an excess incidence rate for first myocardial infarction, but the case fatality rate is no higher than an nonsmokers. The "least active" men show both an increased incidence and a higher case fatality rate. The incidence of rapidly fatal myocardlal infarction among "least active" smokers is 9 times that found among the more active nonsmokers.

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