Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart failure in the United Kingdom

BMJ

Volumn 327, Issue 7428, 2003, Pages 1405-1406

  Bhopal, Raj ^a   Fischbacher, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347479323     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7428.1405-a     Document Type: Letter

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