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SMOKING DOES NOT CAUSE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

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Myocardial infarction: "Glucose level and systolic blood pressure were associated with the incidence of MI, but smoking and lipid measures were not." 

Oops! Remember all the noise in 1998 about smoking and intimal-medial thickening? Where is the media now? 

 
 The American Medical Association seems to be conveniently quiet on this study, though published in its own archives. It does not take great intelligence to understand the reasons. 

Traditional Risk Factors and Subclinical Disease Measures as Predictors of First Myocardial Infarction in Older Adults

The Cardiovascular Health Study

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