Inequalities in coronary revascularisation during the 1990s: Evidence from the British regional heart study

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 635-640

  Morris, Richard W ^a   Whincup, P H ^b   Papacosta, O ^a   Walker, M ^a   Thomson, A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 17644399150     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.037507     Document Type: Article

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