The physical examination was conducted by a trained/licensed cardiovascular physician.
GO is a cardiovascular physician and researcher.
Results for cardiovascular physician visits and hospital admissions were null.
All MACE data were adjudicated by an experienced cardiovascular physician blinded to clinical details and outcomes.
A respiratory physician visit was defined as any billing with an ICD-9 code in the 460 519 range, and a cardiovascular physician visit was defined as any billing in the 390 459 range.
When we repeated analyses for cardiovascular physician visits excluding this and another diagnoses for acute rheumatic fever, chronic rheumatic heart disease, and hypertensive disease (ICD-9 codes 390 409), associations with all three exposure metrics remained null.
Objectives: We examined the associations between respiratory and cardiovascular physician visits and hospital admissions, and three measures of smoke exposure over a 92-day study period (1 July to 30 September 2003).
Stratified analyses were used to assess effect modification by age, sex, socioeconomic status, and possible preexisting sensitivity (based on numbers of respiratory or cardiovascular physician visits in the prior year).
Of 230,624 closed claims, 4,248 (1.8%) involved cardiovascular medical physicians.
This information was independently validated by two cardiovascular research physicians.
