Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: Cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7110, 1997, Pages 722-729

  Tunstall Pedoe, Hugh ^a   Woodward, Mark ^a   Tavendale, Roger ^a   A' Brook, Richard ^a   McCluskey, Mary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POTASSIUM INTAKE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0030870938     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.722     Document Type: Article

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