Impact of smoking on the outcome of patients treated with drug-eluting stents: 1-year results from the prospective multicentre German Drug-Eluting Stent Registry (DES.DE).
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2011
- Volume
- 100
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 413–423
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1007/s00392-010-0259-y
- PMID: 21116637
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
This large multicentre DES registry provides evidence that smokers treated with DES, despite lower incidence of predisposing risk factors for atherosclerosis, experience higher rates of death and MI compared to non-smokers, particularly in the setting of stable coronary artery disease. Smoking has only marginal effects on target vessel revascularization rates in patients treated with DES.
