Factors predictive of long-term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male israeli civil servants and municipal employees: A 23-year mortality follow-up in the israeli ischemic heart disease study

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 1993, Pages 100-121

  Goldbourt, Uri ^a   Yaari, Shlomit ^b   Medalie, Jack H ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Epidemiology; Ethnic diversity; Immigrants; Multivariate analysis; Nutrition; Prospective studies; Religiosity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD HABITS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEWS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0027216026     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000175862     Document Type: Article

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