A two-decades (1975 to 1995) long experience in the incidence, in- hospital and long-term case-fatality rates of acute myocardial infarction: A community-wide perspective

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1533-1539

  Goldberg, Robert J ^a   Yarzebski, Jorge ^a   Lessard, Darleen ^a   Gore, Joel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033133589     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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