The Natural History of Congestive Heart Failure: The Framingham Study

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 285, Issue 26, 1971, Pages 1441-1446

  Mckee, Patrick A ^a   Castelli, William P ^a   Mcnamara, Patricia M ^a   Kannel, William B ^a  

^a Heart Disease Epidemiology Study ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0015237841     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197112232852601     Document Type: Article

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