Sudden cardiac death triggered by an earthquake

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 413-419

  Leor, Jonathan ^a   Poole, W Kenneth ^b   Kloner, Robert A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARTHQUAKE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030020630     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199602153340701     Document Type: Article

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