Factors leading to shorter survival after acute myocardial infarction in patients ages 65 to 75 years compared with younger patients

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 13, 1988, Pages 860-867

  Tofler, Geoffrey H ^a,b   Muller, James E ^a,b   Stone, Peter H ^a,b   Willich, Stefan N ^a,b   Davis, Vicki G ^a,b   Poole, W Kenneth ^a,b   Braunwald, Eugene ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b From the cooperating institutions of the Multicenter Investigation of the Limitation of Infarct Size ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023696421     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)90882-X     Document Type: Article

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