Comparison of atherosclerotic risk factors in Asian Indian and American Caucasian patients with angiographic coronary artery disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1147-1150

  Vallapuri, Srinivas ^a   Gupta, Dhiraj ^b   Talwar, K K ^b   Billie, Michael ^a   Mehta, Mahaveer C ^a   Morise, Anthony P ^a   Jain, Abnash C ^a,c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; BYPASS SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INDIAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0037111964     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02786-8     Document Type: Article

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