Relatively high coronary death and event rates in Turkish women relation to three major risk factors in five-year follow-up of cohort

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-77

  Onat, Altan ^a   Dursunoǧlu, Dursun ^a   Sansoy, Vedat ^a  

^a Turkish Society of Cardiology   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Coronary heart disease death; Coronary risk; Serum lipids

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TURKEY;

EID: 0030760885     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(97)00121-6     Document Type: Article

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