The epidemiology of valvular heart disease: An emerging public health problem

Advances in Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-6

  Supino, Phyllis G ^a   Borer, Jeffrey S ^a   Yin, Andrew ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULMONARY VALVE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NEW YORK; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULMONARY VALVE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0036355418     PISSN: 00652326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000058903     Document Type: Article

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