Is immigration associated with an increase in risk factors and mortality among coronary artery disease patients? A cohort study of 13,742 patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 326-330

  Brodov, Yafim ^a   Mandelzweig, Lori ^a   Boyko, Valentina ^a   Behar, Solomon ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Immigration; Prognosis; Risk

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORIES; DISEASES; LIPIDS; PATIENT MONITORING; SMOKE;

IMMIGRATIONS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BEZAFIBRATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; ISRAEL; LABORATORY TEST; LIPIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STRESS;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; USSR;

EID: 0036255491     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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