{"id":1437069,"date":"2022-04-14T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437069"},"modified":"2022-04-14T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:30:22","slug":"quitting-smoking-adds-5-healthy-years-of-life-after-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/quitting-smoking-adds-5-healthy-years-of-life-after-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Quitting Smoking Adds 5 Healthy Years of Life After Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fquitting-smoking-adds-5-healthy-years-of-life-after-heart-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Smokers who give up cigarettes after a heart attack, bypass surgery, or procedures to unclog blocked arteries may add almost five healthy years to their lives, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits of smoking cessation are even greater than we realized,\u201d said\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/researchinformation.amsterdamumc.org\/en\/persons\/tinka-j-van-trier\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinka van Trier, MD, PhD<\/a>,\u00a0an author of the study and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/heart-health\/best-questions-ask-your-cardiologist\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">cardiologist<\/a> at\u00a0Amsterdam University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers examined data on 989 current smokers age 45 and older who had all had a heart attack, bypass surgery, or a procedure to implant a stent \u2014 a tiny wire mesh cage that helps keep blood flowing through arteries \u2014 at least six months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>These patients were treated with three common medications to prevent events like heart attacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/stroke\/guide\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">strokes<\/a> in people with a history of heart disease: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/statins\/guide\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">statins<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/high-cholesterol\/guide\/treatment\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">lower cholesterol<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/news\/need-know-side-effect-blood-thinners\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">blood thinners<\/a>; and drugs to lower their blood pressure.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--audience ad-container inline-widget inline-widget--right-rail _hold-size\"><\/aside>\n<p>Researchers used a mathematical model built on a wide range of risk factors for heart disease to calculate how many healthy years \u2014 without a heart attack or stroke \u2014 these patients might add to their lives if they managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/quit-smoking\/guide\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">stop smoking<\/a>. In addition, they calculated how many additional healthy years of life patients might gain from taking three extra medicines to prevent cardiovascular disease: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/drugs\/colchicine\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">colchicine<\/a>, an anti-inflammatory therapy, and two medicines to lower \u201cbad\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/high-cholesterol\/guide\/ldl\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">LDL cholesterol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion: Smoking cessation would help these patients live another 4.81 years. They would live 4.83 years if they kept smoking and took all three extra medicines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indicates that smoking cessation is a very important step toward adding healthy years to one\u2019s lifetime,\u201d Dr. Van Trier said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/948779?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the calculations didn\u2019t even factor many other benefits of smoking cessation, like preventing respiratory illness or cancer, Van Trier added.<\/p>\n<p>The study results were presented at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/digital-congress.escardio.org\/Preventive-Cardiology\/programme?q=XQAAAAJMAAAAAAAAAABDqQqGU_0GbB0wE5qqmMXxHCMkq8uVbtEbkDgHredMzA_Kn1kHmK1PgC_PO6C7XdraHXmo5F8uGWCPTQX4AAxKqFdzhjl-iQu9qaq2bWF__rPXAA\" rel=\"noopener\">ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022<\/a>, an online scientific meeting of the European Society of Cardiology. Note that independent scientists did not review the validity of the findings, which typically happens when studies are published in medical journals.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the many health benefits of smoking cessation are well known, the researchers believe that risk calculators doctors typically use to advise patients on the advantages of quitting may underestimate the upside of doing this. That\u2019s because there are so many effective medications for attacking other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/heart-disease\/\" data-gd-wrapped=\"\">risk factors of heart disease<\/a> \u2014 like high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol, researchers argue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the increasing number of beneficial pharmacological interventions available, the substantial health benefit of smoking cessation may be overlooked,\u201d researchers wrote in the materials they presented at the medical meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smokers who give up cigarettes after a heart attack, bypass surgery, or procedures to unclog blocked arteries may add almost five healthy years to their lives, a new study suggests.\u201cThe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}