Education and acute coronary syndromes: Results from the CARDIO2000 epidemiological study

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 371-377

  Pitsavos, Christos E ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Chrysohoou, Christina A ^a   Skoumas, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute disease epidemiology; Case control studies; Coronary disease epidemiology; Developing countries; Education; Greece; Life style; Multicenter studies; Retrospective studies; Risk factors; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036266359     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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