The role of a center for tobacco-dependent in cardiovascular prevention. A retrospective study

Abstract

Patients of the Center for Tobacco-Dependent (CTD): 1,334 CTD patients aged 25-64 years (52.2% men, mean age 44 +/- 12 years, Fagerstrom Test for Cigarette Dependence 6 +/- 2), 12-months-follow-up. Among patients with a SCORE of <5%, the success rate was 44.3% (254/574) and 41.2% for patients at high CV risk (105/255, p=0.41).

There was a trend towards a lower success rate among patients with CVD, but this difference was not significant. The smoking cessation rate among low and high CV risk patients at the baseline visit was identical (46.2%, resp. 47.3%, p=0.81). 3.1% (42/1,334) of patients were referred to a specialist for hypertension. 62.5% (223/357), without a prior history, were found to have dyslipidemia.

Keywords

• cardiovascular diseases
• risk factors
• nicotine dependence
• smoking cessation
• early medical intervention
• coronary-heart-disease
• middle-aged men
• smoking-cessation
• blood-pressure
• cigarette-smoking
• risk-factor
• follow-up
• hypertension
• guidelines
• mortality