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Smoking cessation is associated with decreased mortality and improved amputation- free survival among patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease 

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1 Smoking cessation is associated with decreased mortality and improved amputation- free survival among patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease  Ehrin J. Armstrong, MD, MS, Julie Wu, BS, Gagan D. Singh, MD, David L. Dawson, MD, William C. Pevec, MD, Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD, John R. Laird, MD  Journal of Vascular Surgery  Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages (December 2014) DOI: /j.jvs Copyright © Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier curves show (A) mortality, (B) rates of major amputation, and (C) amputation-free survival among patients who continued (solid line) vs quit (dashed line) smoking. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier curves show (A) mortality, (B) rates of major amputation, and (C) amputation-free survival among patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) who continued (solid line) vs quit (dashed line) smoking. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © Terms and Conditions


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