American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 2 , Pages 213-220 , August 2007

Inpatient smoking-cessation counseling and all-cause mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction

This work is dedicated to the memory of Aubrey Ignatius Van Spall, beloved father and friend.

  • Harriette G.C. Van Spall, BSc, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Alice Chong, BS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jack V. Tu, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences G106-2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M4N 3M5.

Received 14 August 2006 ,Accepted 2 April 2007.

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 The EFFECT study is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team Grant in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. Additional funding for this project came from an operating grant (Grant No. NA 5703) from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Dr Tu is funded by a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research and a Career Investigator Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

PII: S0002-8703(07)00290-6

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.04.012

American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 2 , Pages 213-220 , August 2007

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