Effect of diabetes mellitus on the presentation and triage of patients with acute chest pain without known coronary artery disease

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 500-505

  Lopez Jimenez, Francisco ^a   Goldman, Lee ^b   Johnson, Paula A ^a   Polanczyk, Carísi A ^a   Cook, E Francis ^a   Fleischmann, Kirsten E ^a   Orav, E John ^a   Lee, Thomas H ^a  

^a Partners Community HealthCare Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 0032441618     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(98)00327-1     Document Type: Article

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