Reduced admissions for acute myocardial infarction associated with a public smoking ban: matched controlled study
Dong-Chul Seo1, Mohammad R Torabi
1Dept. of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA. seo@indiana.edu
Abstract:
There has been no research linking implementation of a public smoking ban and reduced incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among nonsmoking patients. An ex post facto matched control group study was conducted to determine whether there was a change in hospital admissions for AMI among nonsmoking patients after a public smoking ban was implemented in Monroe County compared with Delaware County, Indiana without such a ban. Poisson analysis was conducted for 44 months of hospital admissions. A significant drop occurred in the number of admissions among nonsmoking patients in Monroe County after the ban whereas a nonsignificant decrease in the number of admissions occurred in Delaware County. The changes in the number of smoking-patient admissions before and after the ban were not significant.
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