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. 2022 Dec 28;8(1):328–333. doi: 10.1177/23969873221148224

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