Cardiovascular diseases and risk factors in Finland

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages

  Vartiainen, Erkki ^a   Puska, Pekka ^a   Jousilahti, Pekka ^a   Korhonen, Heikki J ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

CVD prevention; Population wide strategies

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY RISK; FINLAND; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033403180     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1999.0403     Document Type: Article

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