Racial Variation in the Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation among Patients with Heart Failure: The Epidemiology, Practice, Outcomes, and Costs of Heart Failure (EPOCH) Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 429-435

  Ruo, Bernice ^a   Capra, Angela M ^b   Jensvold, Nancy G ^b   Go, Alan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0842287513     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.09.035     Document Type: Article

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