Risk Stratification and Survival after Myocardial Infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 309, Issue 6, 1983, Pages 331-336

  Lester, Roger ^a,b,c,d   Moss, Arthur J ^a,b,c,d   Bigger, J Thomas ^a,b,c,d   Case, Robert B ^a,b,c,d   Gillespie, John A ^a,b,c,d   Goldstein, Robert E ^a,b,c,d   Greenberg, Henry M ^a,b,c,d   Krone, Ronald ^a,b,c,d   Marcus, Frank I ^a,b,c,d   Odoroff, Charles L ^a,b,c,d   Oliver, G Charles ^a,b,c,d   Cobb, Leonard ^a,b,c,d   Edwards, Jesse ^a,b,c,d   Kuller, Lewis ^a,b,c,d   Davis, Henry T ^a,b,c,d   Fleiss, Joseph L ^a,b,c,d   Miller, J Phillip ^a,b,c,d  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

^c BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RISK; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK; STROKE VOLUME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0020526130     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198308113090602     Document Type: Article

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