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the counterintuitive finding that smokers with acute myocardial infarction had lower short-term mortality after thrombolysis than nonsmokers, largely explained by younger age and fewer risk factors.

In cardiology, smoker's paradox refers to the counterintuitive finding that smokers with acute myocardial infarction had lower short-term mortality after thrombolysis than nonsmokers, largely explained by younger age and fewer risk factors. This meaning comes from Barbash (1995) in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[1]

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  1. Barbash, G. I., Reiner, J., White, H. D., Wilcox, R. G., Armstrong, P. W., Sadowsi, Z., Morris, D., Aylward, P., Woodlief, L. H., Topol, E. J., Califf, R. M., & Ross, A. M. (1995). Evaluation of paradoxic beneficial effects of smoking in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: Mechanism of the “smoker's paradox” from the GUSTO-I trial, with angiographic insights. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26(5), 1222-1229. https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-1097(95)00299-5

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