The frederiksberg heart failure study: rationale, design and methodology, with special emphasis on the sampling procedure for the study population and its comparison to the background population

HeartDrug

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 167-174

  Raymond, Ilan ^a   Pedersen, Frants ^a   Busch Sørensen, Michael ^b   Green, Anders ^c   Hildebrandt, Per R ^a  

^a FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Background population; Congestive heart failure; Morbidity; Mortality; Population study; Sampling procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344974146     PISSN: 14229528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065944     Document Type: Article

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