Racial differences in patients with heart failure

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 791-794

  Afzal, Adnan ^a,b   Ananthasubramaniam, Karthik ^a   Sharma, Nagaraja ^a   Ai Malki, Qahtan ^a   Ali, Abbas S ^a   Jacobsen, Gordon ^a   Jafri, Syed M ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Follow up; Heart failure; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032747776     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960221207     Document Type: Article

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