Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

The time course of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk after smoking cessation is unclear. Risk calculators consider former smokers to be at risk for only 5 years.To evaluate the association between years since quitting smoking and incident CVD.Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from Framingham Heart Study participants without baseline CVD (original cohort: attending their fourth examination in 1954-1958; offspring cohort:...