Contribution of trends in survival and coronary-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

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Volumn 353, Issue 9164, 1999, Pages 1547-1557

  Tunstall Pedoe, Hugh ^a   Kuulasmaa, Kari ^b   Mähönen, Markku ^b   Tolonen, Hanna ^b   Ruokokoski, Esa ^b   Amouyel, Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033535812     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)04021-0     Document Type: Article

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