Prevalence Rates of Major and Minor Electrocardiogram Abnormalities in the Singapore General Population

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-164

  Hughes, K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asians; Cardiac ischaemia; Coronary heart disease; Minnesota Code

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0031086517     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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