Traditional risk factors and the incidence of sudden coronary death with and without coronary thrombosis in blacks

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 419-424

  Burke, Allen P ^a   Farb, Andrew ^a   Pestaner, Joseph ^c   Malcom, Gray T ^b   Zieske, Arthur ^b   Kutys, Robert ^a   Smialek, John ^c   Virmani, Renu ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Death, sudden; Hypertrophy; Risk factors; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; THROMBUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; ODDS RATIO; ORGAN SIZE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037192328     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hc0402.102952     Document Type: Article

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