Cigarette Smoking Doubles the Risk of Developing Both Types of Heart Failure
People who smoked tobacco cigarettes developed heart failure at 2 times the rate of people who never smoked, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The research is one of the first to assess smoking in both types of heart failure — reduced ejection fraction and preserved ejection fraction — and found that smoking is significant risk factor for both.“These findings underline the importance of preventing smoking in the first place, especially among children and young adults.” said study senior author Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD, associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Bloomberg School in Baltimore, in a release. “We hope our results will encourage current smokers to quit sooner rather than later, since the harm of smoking can last…