Factors associated with smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease: a cohort analysis of the German subset of EuroAspire IV survey

Table 1 Current smokers at index event* (n = 104) stratified by their smoking status reported median 3.5 years later

	Total	Non-smokers at follow-up interview	Smokers at follow-up interview
	N = 104	N = 65 (62.5%)	N = 39 (37.5%)	P-value
Demography
Age at index event, years	59.1 ± 9.0	59.5 ± 9.0	58.5 ± 9.1	0.61
Female sex	16 (15.4)	11 (16.9)	5 (12.8)	0.58
High educational level^#	23 (22.1)	10 (15.4)	13 (33.3)	0.03
Comorbidities
Type of index event: CABG	14 (13.5)	10 (15.4)	4 (10.3)	0.46
Diabetes (baseline)^a	32 (31.1)	24 (37.5)	8 (20.5)	0.07
Depressed mood (baseline)^b	25 (24.3)	11 (17.2)	14 (35.9)	0.03
Intervention
Cardiac rehabilitation program after index event	73 (70.2)	54 (83.1)	19 (48.7)	< 0.001

Data are n (percent) or mean ± SD and p-values by asymptotic Pearson’s Chi-Squared test or independent sample t-test, as appropriate
CABG coronary artery bypass graft
*Index event occurred 6–36 months prior to baseline visit, and telephone-based follow-up interview occurred about 2 years after baseline visit; median observation time between index event and telephone-based follow-up interview was 3.5 years
^#High school completed, college/university completed, postgraduate degree
^a Data missing for 1 participant
^b Data missing for 1 participant

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