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01-03-2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Impairs Fracture Healing in Rats
Author:
Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD, FACS
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 3/2017
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Excerpt
We do not need double-blind crossover randomized clinical trials to understand that smoking causes cancer. Though we are not “lung doctors or cancer doctors” (as I tell my patients), we understand that when the preponderance of clinical results—along with experimental and mechanistic data—strongly indicate a detrimental affect, we scientifically accept those conclusions and use them to guide and treat our patients. …