The impact of active smoking on postoperative morbidity and hernia recurrence following abdominal wall reconstruction: long-term follow-up.

Hernia · 2026 · PMC12948806 · PMID 41758246

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One notable postoperative complication was pneumonia, which occurred more frequently in smokers [5, (4.7%)] than in never-smokers [3, (1.0%)], though this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.053).

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