Trends in stroke and coronary heart disease in the WHO MONICA Project

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1346-1352

  Truelsen, Thomas ^a   Mähönen, Markku ^b   Tolonen, Hanna ^b   Asplund, Kjell ^c   Bonita, Ruth ^a   Vanuzzo, Diego ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Centro Malattie Cardiovascolari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Coronary heart disease; Health surveys; Mortality; Registries; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0038653144     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000069724.36173.4D     Document Type: Article

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