Alcohol consumption and mortality in Serbia: Twenty-year follow-up study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 764-768

  Jakovljević, Branko ^a   Stojanov, Vesna ^b   Paunović, Katarina ^a   Belojević, Goran ^a   Milić, Nataša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Cerebrovascular accident; Follow up studies; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 11144247958     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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