TY - JOUR AU - Mannan, Haider R. AU - Stevenson, Christopher E. AU - Peeters, Anna AU - Walls, Helen L. AU - McNeil, John J. PY - 2011 DA - 2011/02/15 TI - Age at quitting smoking as a predictor of risk of cardiovascular disease incidence independent of smoking status, time since quitting and pack-years JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 39 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Risk prediction for CVD events has been shown to vary according to current smoking status, pack-years smoked over a lifetime, time since quitting and age at quitting. The latter two are closely and inversely related. It is not known whether the age at which one quits smoking is an additional important predictor of CVD events. The aim of this study was to determine whether the risk of CVD events varied according to age at quitting after taking into account current smoking status, lifetime pack-years smoked and time since quitting. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-39 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-4-39 ID - Mannan2011 ER -