Age: A Nonmodifiable Risk Factor?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1427-1428

  Maurer, Mathew S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REDUCTION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0142012074     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)01035-0     Document Type: Editorial

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