Prognostic Impact of Active Cigarette Smoking on Mortality in Patients with Acute Venous Thromboembolic Events, Findings from Real World Data

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 TromboEmbólica) 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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 58(2022), 2 vom: 15. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Giorgi-Pierfranceschi, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Monreal, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Di Micco, Pierpaolo [VerfasserIn]
Francisco, Iria [VerfasserIn]
Hernández-Blasco, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Madridano, Olga [VerfasserIn]
López-Sáez, Juan Bosco [VerfasserIn]
Hernando, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Meireles, Jose [VerfasserIn]
Dentali, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
The Riete Investigators [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anticoagulants
Cigarette smoking
Journal Article
Mortality
Venous thromboembolism

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.02.2022

Date Revised 01.03.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/medicina58020295

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337401683