Cardiovascular risk profile earlier in life and medicare costs in the last year of life

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1028-1034

  Daviglus, Martha L ^a   Liu, Kiang ^a   Pirzada, Amber ^a   Yan, Lijing L ^a,b   Garside, Daniel B ^a   Greenland, Philip ^a   Manheim, Larry M ^a   Dyer, Alan R ^a   Wang, Renwei ^a   Lubitz, James ^c   Manning, Willard G ^d   Fries, James F ^e   Stamler, Jeremiah ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 21044450185     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.9.1028     Document Type: Article

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