Alarmingly high occurrence and case fatality of acute coronary heart disease events in Estonia: Results from the Tallinn AMI register 1991-94

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Laks, Toivo ^a   Tuomilehto, J ^b   Joeste E ^c   Maeots E ^c   Salomaa, V ^b   Palomaki P ^d   Pullisaar, O ^c   Karu, K ^e   Torppa, J ^b  

^a West Tallinn Central Hospital for Infectious Diseases   (Estonia)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Mustamae Hospital   (Estonia)

^d Joensuu Central Hospital   (Finland)

^e Estonian Bank   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Case fatality; Coronary event register; Incidence; Mortality; Out of hospital death; Treatment of AMI

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032798402     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1999.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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