Table 2.
The effect of smoking on the efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy for prevention of subsequent ischemic stroke in the full cohort and subgroups stratified by age, gender, race, and type 2 diabetes mellitus status.
| Smoker | Non-smoker | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | Hazard ratio (95% CI) | p-Value | Number of patients | Hazard ratio (95% CI) | p-Value | |
| Total population | 1004 | 0.63 (0.37, 1.05) | 0.078 | 3873 | 0.74 (0.56, 0.98) | 0.030 |
| Subgroups | ||||||
| Age, years | ||||||
| <60 | 573 | 0.52 (0.26, 1.05) | 0.067 | 1140 | 1.09 (0.63, 1.89) | 0.756 |
| ⩾60 | 431 | 0.81 (0.36, 1.80) | 0.599 | 2733 | 0.65 (0.47, 0.90) | 0.009 |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 368 | 0.73 (0.31, 1.71) | 0.466 | 1825 | 0.62 (0.41, 0.93) | 0.020 |
| Male | 636 | 0.57 (0.30, 1.10) | 0.096 | 2048 | 0.87 (0.60, 1.27) | 0.469 |
| Race | ||||||
| Black | 284 | 0.28 (0.10, 0.84) | 0.023 | 681 | 0.73 (0.43, 1.24) | 0.250 |
| White | 651 | 1.10 (0.57, 2.14) | 0.78 | 2902 | 0.77 (0.55, 1.08) | 0.128 |
| T2DM status | ||||||
| Has T2DM | 222 | 0.86 (0.26, 2.83) | 0.808 | 1115 | 0.78 (0.51, 1.19) | 0.242 |
| No T2DM | 776 | 0.58 (0.33, 1.04) | 0.077 | 2755 | 0.71 (0.49, 1.02) | 0.064 |