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Wednesday
Where There's Smoke There's Often an ICD That Fires :
" Smokers, even former smokers, with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are more likely to be shocked than are patients who never smoked, researchers here found. Current smokers have more than a sevenfold increase in risk of appropriate shocks and former smokers are more than five times more likely to receive appropriate shocks than never-smokers" |
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