Heart disease in older patients

Practitioner

Volumn 242, Issue 1589, 1998, Pages 577-586

  Pascual, Juanita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ASPIRIN; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0032130187     PISSN: 00326518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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