Mortality Risk Reduction Associated With Smoking Cessation in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

As more interventions become available for the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD), policy makers and health practitioners need to understand the benefits of each intervention, to better determine where to focus resources. This is particularly true when a patient with CHD quits smoking.To conduct a systematic review to determine the magnitude of risk reduction achieved by smoking cessation in patients with CHD.Nine electronic databases...