Incidence and aetiology of heart failure: A population-based study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 421-428

  Cowie, M R ^a   Wood, D A ^a   Coats, A J S ^a   Thompson, S G ^a   Poole Wilson, P A ^a   Suresh, V ^b   Sutton, G C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b HILLINGDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Epidemiology; Heart failure; Incidence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033006276     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1280     Document Type: Article

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