Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development.

Our results show that smoking cessation after coronary bypass surgery may have important beneficial effects on clinical events during long-term follow-up.

This study shows that preprocedural TIMI flow grade 3 is an independent predictor of one-year survival in high-risk patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty. These data suggest that all efforts should be made to obtain early and optimal restoration of antegrade flow, particularly in high-risk patients and when transportation to tertiary centers, with a conceivable further time delay, is required.

Prehospital administration of aspirin and heparin results in a higher initial patency of the IRA in patients with acute MI.