Long-term trends in incidence of and mortality from acute myocardial infarction and stroke in women: Analyses of total first events and of deaths in the Uppsala Health Care Region, Sweden

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-74

  Falkeborn, Margareta ^a   Persson, Ingemar ^b   Terént, Andreas ^b   Bergström, Reinhold ^a   Lithell, Hans ^a   Naessén, Tord ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

incidence; mortality; myocardial infarction; stroke; time trends; women

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030063568     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199601000-00012     Document Type: Article

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