Trends and geographical disparities in coronary heart disease in France: Are results concordant when different definitions of events are used?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1050-1058

  Lang, Thierry ^a,d   Ducimetière, Pierre ^a   Arveiler, Dominique ^b   Amouyel, Philippe ^e   Ferrières, Jean ^c   Ruidavets, Jean Bernard ^c   Montaye, Michèle ^e   Haas, Bernadette ^b   Bingham, Annie ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary heart disease; Epidemiology; Geographical disparities; Time trends

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FATALITY; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER;

FRANCE;

EID: 0033402627     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.6.1050     Document Type: Article

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