How to define coronary heart disease in register-based follow-up studies: Experience from the Helsinki Heart Study

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-259

  Pietilä, Kati ^a   Tenkanen, Leena ^b   Mänttäri, Matti ^c   Manninen, Vesa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Heart Study   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Cause of death register; Coronary heart disease; Coronary revascularizations; Hospital discharge register; Register validity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER;

EID: 0030791866     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899708999343     Document Type: Article

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