Acute myocardial infarction in the elderly: Differences by age

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 736-741

  Mehta, Rajendra H ^a   Rathore, Saif S ^b   Radford, Martha J ^b,c,d   Wang, Yongfei ^b   Wang, Yun ^c,d   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d QUALIDIGM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034841628     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01432-2     Document Type: Article

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