Coronary heart disease risk factors ranked by importance for the individual and the community. A 21-year follow-up of 12,000 men and women from The Copenhangen City Heart Study;Individuelle og populationsbaserede risikofaktorer for iskæmisk hjertesygdom: Enogtyve års opfølgning af 12.000 mœnd og kvinder fra Østerbroundersøgelsen

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 165, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1353-1358

  Schnohr, Peter ^a   Jensen, Jan Skov ^b   Scharling, Henrik ^b   Nordestgaard, Børge Grønne ^b  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0038446358     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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