Population-based analysis of the effect of the Northridge Earthquake on cardiac death in Los Angeles County, California

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1174-1180

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NATURAL DISASTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS;

EID: 0030779282     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00281-7     Document Type: Article

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