Epidemiology of heart failure in primary care in Madeira: The EPICA-RAM study;Epidemiologia da insuficiência cardíaca em cuidados primários na região autónoma da Madeira: O estudo EPICA-RAM

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-189

  Ceia, Fatima ^a,b   Fonseca, Cândida ^a   Azevedo, Isabel ^a   Mota, Teresa ^a   Morais, Humberto ^a   Matias, Fernando ^a   Costa, Catarina ^a   Gouveia Oliveira, António ^a  

^a EPICA   (Portugal)

^b NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Drug therapy; Heart failure; Prevalence; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PORTUGAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 17444406955     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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