Event rates of acute myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in Niigata and Nagaoka cities in Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-45

  Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Saito, Reiko ^a   Sato, Tadashi ^a   Hayashi, Senji ^b   Toyoshima, Hideaki ^c   Seki, Nao ^a   Miyanishi, Kunio ^d   Izumi, Tohru ^e   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a   Namekata, Tsukasa ^f  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Niigata Women's College   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f Pac Rim Disease Prevention Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary heart disease; Event rate; MONICA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CITY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037244854     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.67.40     Document Type: Article

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