Influence of Smoking Combined with Another Risk Factor on the Risk of Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: Pooled Analysis of 10 Japanese Cohort Studies

Particular attention should be given to smokers who have concomitant hypertension or high serum cholesterol for preventing deaths due to cardiovascular disease. From a public health perspective in Japan, priority should be given to hypertensive smokers, since this group makes a large contribution to the burden of both coronary and cerebral infarction deaths.