Smokers may show heart disease much younger than nonsmokers

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Smokers may show heart disease much younger than nonsmokers

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/smokers-may-show-heart-disease-much-younger-nonsmokers-184456988.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4ePpuiyxXwypjGnUc13eAA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-31T184456Z_1_CBREA2U1G3400_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-SMOKING.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man flicks ashes from his cigarette over a dustbin in Shanghai" align="left" title="A man flicks ashes from his cigarette over a dustbin in Shanghai" border="0" /></a>By Krystnell Storr NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A smoker's coronary artery disease is likely to be as advanced as that of a non-smoker who is 10 years older when both show up at the hospital with a heart attack, according to a new study. Researchers looked at nearly 14,000 patients hospitalized with blockages in arteries supplying the heart muscle and found smokers were more likely than nonsmokers to die within a year. Despite their being younger, and otherwise healthier, the smokers' heart arteries were in a condition similar to those of nonsmokers 10 years older. &quot;We saw smokers presenting the disease at age 55 and nonsmokers presenting the same disease at 65,&quot; said Dr. Alexandra Lansky, a researcher on the study.</p><br clear="all"/>

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