EFFECT OF INTRAVENOUS NITRATES ON MORTALITY IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: AN OVERVIEW OF THE RANDOMISED TRIALS

The Lancet

Volumn 331, Issue 8594, 1988, Pages 1088-1092

  Yusuf, Salim ^a,b   Macmahon, Stephen ^a,b   Collins, Rory ^a,c   Peto, Richard ^a  

^a CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICE UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITRATES; NITROGLYCERIN; NITROPRUSSIDE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023897609     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(88)91906-X     Document Type: Article

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