Cardiovascular risk factors: Smoking and the Lebanese civil war;Facteurs de risque cardio-vasculaire: Le tabagisme dans le contexte des derniers evenements du Liban

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-112

  Chahine, Ramez ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; WAR;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 0031801944     PISSN: 11575999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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