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Mortality of former smokers higher than current and never smokers #48

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aminadibi opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 3 comments
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Mortality of former smokers higher than current and never smokers #48

aminadibi opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 3 comments
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@shahzadg and I think maybe average PYs is significantly higher in former smokers. To test for this, let's compare average packyears at the time of death for former and current smokers.

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aminadibi commented Oct 4, 2017 •
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@shahzadg check this out. Seems current smokers still have higher PYs at the time of death, compared with former smokers. Not clear why former smokers ppl have higher mortality.

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And if death by COPD is disabled, we still have:

Former Smokers:
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