Understanding racial variation in the use of coronary revascularization procedures: The role of clinical factors

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1329-1335

  Conigliaro, Joseph ^a,f   Whittle, Jeff ^a   Good, Chester B ^a   Hanusa, Barbara H ^a   Passman, Leigh J ^b   Lofgren, Richard P ^c   Allman, Richard ^d   Ubel, Peter A ^e   O'Connor, Monica ^a   Macpherson, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0034621639     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.160.9.1329     Document Type: Article

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