@misc{10498/26636,
year = {2022},
month = {2},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26636},
abstract = {Background and Objectives: The influence of smoking habits on mortality, VTE recurrence, and major bleeding in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy for venous thromboembolism (VTE) has not been consistently evaluated. Materials and Methods: We used data from the RIETE (Registro Enfermedad TromboEmbolica) registry to compare mortality, VTE recurrence, and major bleeding risk in smoking versus non-smoking patients with acute VTE. Results: 50,881 patients (43,426 non-smoking and 7455 smoking patients) were included. After a median follow-up of 8.8 months, 7110 patients died (fatal PE 292 and fatal bleeding 281), 3243 presented VTE recurrence, and 1579 had major bleeding. At multivariate analysis, smoking behavior was associated with a higher hazard of death, (HR: 1.28; 95% CI: 1.19-1.40). The risk of VTE recurrence was marginally increased in smoking patients compared to non-smoking patients (1.14; 95% CI: 1.02-1.27). Major bleeding did not differ in smoking and non-smoking patients (1.15; 95% CI: 0.96-1.38). The presence of cancer did not appear to influence the association between smoking habits and death (HR: 1.34; 95% CI: 1.22-1.47 in cancer patients and HR: 1.23; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.45 in non-cancer patients, respectively) Conclusions: the risk of death after an acute episode of VTE appeared to be higher in smoking than in non-smoking patients and this risk is higher between patients presenting PE at the onset of symptoms.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {venous thromboembolism},
keywords = {mortality},
keywords = {cigarette smoking},
title = {Prognostic Impact of Active Cigarette Smoking on Mortality in Patients with Acute Venous Thromboembolic Events, Findings from Real World Data},
doi = {10.3390/medicina58020295},
author = {Giorgi-Pierfranceschi, Matteo and Monreal, Manuel and Di Micco, Pierpaolo and Francisco, Iria and Hernández-Blasco, Luis and Madridano, Olga and López Sáez, José Juan Bosco and Hernando, Elena and Meireles, Jose and Dentali, Francesco and RIETE Investigators},
}