Smoking and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the Elderly

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 252, Issue 20, 1984, Pages 2831-2834

  Jajich, Cindy L ^a   Ostfeld, Adrian M ^a   Freeman, Daniel H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLACKS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; WHITES;

EID: 0021739414     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1984.03350200017013     Document Type: Article

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