The enigma of the ‘smoker’s paradox’ : results from a single-center registry of patients with STEMI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
Anno:
2024
Background: Smoker’s paradox usually refers to the common observation of a favourable outcome of smoker patients in acute myocardial infarction. The interpretation of this phenomenon is still controversial and not fully explained. We aimed at assessing whether smoking could be associated with mortality in a large cohort of prospectively…