The prevalence of coronary artery disease in an urban population in Isfahan, Iran

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 257-263

  Sarraf Zadegan, Nizal ^a   Sayed Tabatabaei, Fakhredin Ali ^a   Bashardoost, Nasrollah ^a   Maleki, Ali ^a   Totonchi, Mina ^a   Habibi, Hamid Reza ^a   Sotodehmaram, Esfandiar ^a   Tafazoli, Fatemeh ^a   Karimi, Abdollah ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Electrocardiogrophy; Prevalence; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; EDUCATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; LIFESTYLE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032700550     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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