| Literature DB >> 16043802 |
Bruce Ovbiagele1, Jeffrey L Saver.
Abstract
Smokers with acute myocardial infarction have better outcomes after thrombolysis than nonsmokers. The authors evaluated the independent effect of smoking on short-term outcome following IV thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke. After adjusting for covariates, recent smokers who received thrombolysis had a significantly greater drop in 24-hour median stroke severity scores from baseline than nonsmokers who received thrombolysis and lower mortality over 1 year.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16043802 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000168163.72351.f3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910