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Jump to full article: MedPage Today, 2009-08-24
Intro: Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that smokeless products such as snuff and chewing tobacco may carry risks for fatal heart attacks and strokes.
* Explain that a study showed that the risks were small but the public health implications may be significant.
The use of smokeless tobacco products was associated with an increased risk for fatal myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, a meta-analysis found.
For fatal MI, the relative risk associated with ever having used these products was 1.13 (95% CI 1.06 to 1.21), according to Paolo Boffetta, MD, and Kurt Straif, MD, PhD, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. . . .
Primary source: BMJ Source reference: Boffetta P, Straif K "Use of smokeless tobacco and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke: systematic review with meta-analysis"
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