Incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Takashima, Shiga, Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-408

  Yoshida, Michiaki ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^b   Nozaki, Akihiko ^a   Okayama, Akira ^c   Sugihara, Hideki ^d   Kasamatsu, Takayuki ^e   Hirose, Kunihiko ^f   Kinoshita, Masahiko ^a   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d Takashima General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Makino Hospital   (Japan)

^f OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Japan; Myocardial infarction; Population

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; REGISTER; SUDDEN DEATH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 20144389879     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.404     Document Type: Article

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