Mortality in an Insured Population With Atrial Fibrillation

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 245, Issue 15, 1981, Pages 1540-1544

  Gajewski, Jerzy ^a   Singer, Richard B ^a  

^a Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; INSURANCE; MORTALITY; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSURANCE CARRIERS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 0019435542     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1981.03310400022019     Document Type: Article

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