Forty-year follow-up of coronary heart disease mortality and its predictors: The Corfu cohort of the Seven Countries Study

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Pitsavos, Christos ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a,d   Menotti, Alessandro ^b   Chrysohoou, Christina ^a   Skoumas, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Dontas, Anastasios ^b,c   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Association for Cardiac Research   (Italy)

^c Ctr Studs Age Related Changes Man   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0038080207     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520-037X.2003.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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