Smoking, heart attack link.Smoking, heart attack link About 5 to 10 percent of heart attack victims don't have significant hardening of the arteries hardening of the arteries: see arteriosclerosis. . But a disproportionate dis·pro·por·tion·ate adj. Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount. dis  pro·por number of them, especially in the younger age groups, are smokers, says Michael J. Pecora of Emory University Emory University (ĕm`ərē), near Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; United Methodist; chartered as Emory College 1836, opened 1837 at Oxford. It became Emory Univ. in 1915 and in 1919 moved to Atlanta. in Atlanta. While this association does not prove that smoking causes heart attacks in the absence of atherosclerosis atherosclerosis (ăth'ərōsklərō`sĭs): see arteriosclerosis. atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries , it is another reason not to smoke, says Pecora. He and his colleagues studied 48 people who had little or no atherosclerosis yet had suffered heart attacks. Seventy-one percent had a history of smoking; the proportion was higher -- 78 percent -- for those under 60 years of age. |
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