The researchers are now focusing on the influence of specific risk factors, such as smoking, on life expectancy after CABG surgery.

We identified 211 patients who had a noncardiac surgical procedure within 1 year after CABG. We report patient characteristics and medical history in Table 1. Variables and outcomes associated ...

Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (developed with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons ...

Patients who have undergone CABG surgery are at particularly high risk of atherosclerosis progression, yet these individuals tend not to receive adequate lipid-lowering therapy. Shah et al.