Association of conventional and exertional coronary heart disease risk factors in 5,000 apparently healthy men

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 303-308

  Davies, Bruce ^a,e   Ashton, William D ^a   Rowlands, Derek J ^a   El Sayed, Mahmoud ^b   Wallace, Philip C ^b   Duckett, Ken ^c   Coley, John ^c   Daggerr, Annem ^d  

^a Olympic Medical Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b BMI Health Care Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asymptomatic; coronary heart disease; exercise electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT;

EID: 0029788488     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960190405     Document Type: Article

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