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Rachel Tan
Rachel is a marketing graduate from the National University of Singapore. She enjoys researching and writing extensively on healthcare, medicine, and technology in her personal time. In her free time, she enjoys reading books on psychology, science-related mysteries, and documentaries as a personal interest.
Two recent studies examined the effects of smoking cessation after cardiovascular events. One found quitters halved their odds of recurrent heart attack within 6 months. The other recorded indistinguishable mortality risks for quitters and nonsmokers after 4 years, whereas persistent smoking was associated with double the mortality risk.
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