Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general practice: Cross sectional population based study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7375, 2002, Pages 1271-1274

  Cappuccio, Francesco P ^a   Oakeshott, Pippa ^a   Strazzullo, Pasquale ^b   Kerry, Sally M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037202706     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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