Assessment of smoking care by stroke specialists in patients with recent TIA and minor stroke: an international prospective registry-based cohort study

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 14; no. 7; p. e078632
• Main Authors: Lavallee, Philippa, Charles, Hugo, Labreuche, Julien, Albers, Gregory W, Caplan, Louis, Donnan, Geoffrey A, Ferro, José Manuel, Hennerici, M G, Molina, Carlos A, Rothwell, Peter, Steg, Gabriel, Touboul, Pierre-Jean, Uchiyama, Shinichiro, Vicaut, Eric, Wong, Lawrence K S, Amarenco, Pierre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 03.07.2024; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Adult neurology; Aged; Alcohol abuse; Cardiovascular Disease; Cigarettes; Cohort analysis; Counseling; Drug therapy; Europe - epidemiology; Female; Humans; Ischemia; Ischemic Attack, Transient - epidemiology; Latin America - epidemiology; Male; Middle Aged; Missing data; Neurology; Patients; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Registries; Regression analysis; Risk Factors; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking cessation; Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data; Stroke; Stroke - epidemiology; Tobacco; Transient ischemic attack; Variables; Europe; Latin America; Adult neurology; Cardiovascular Disease; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; Stroke; Risk Factors

ObjectivesThe objectives are to assess smoking abstinence and its effects on vascular risk and to report tobacco-cessation counselling and pharmacotherapy use in patients who had a recent minor stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA).Design and settingThe TIA registry.org project is a prospective...