Declining rates of coronary heart disease in New Zealand and Australia, 1983-1993

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 707-713

  Beaglehole, Robert ^a   Stewart, Alistair W ^a   Jackson, Rod ^a   Dobson, Annette J ^b   McElduff, Patrick ^b   D'Este, Kate ^b   Heller, Richard F ^b   Jamrozik, Konrad D ^c   Hobbs, Michael S ^c   Parsons, Richard ^c   Broadhurst, Robyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

coronary heart disease; incidence; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND;

CORONARY HEART DISEASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; MORTALITY RATES;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, NEWCASTLE; AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH; NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, AUCKLAND;

EID: 0030613837     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/145.8.707     Document Type: Article

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