Survival rates are similar between African American and white patients with heart failure

American Heart Journal

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-272

  Dunlap, Stephanie H ^b   Mallemala, Sirisha ^b   Sueta, Carla A ^b   Schwartz, Todd A ^b   Adams Jr , Kirkwood F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0041488811     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(03)00240-0     Document Type: Article

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