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. Robert Giugliano, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Elliott Antman, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate dean for clinical and translational research at HMS, are quoted.
