Cardiovascular risk factors in Croatia: Struggling to provide the evidence for developing policy recommendations

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7510, 2005, Pages 208-210

  Kern, Josipa ^a,b   Strnad, Marija ^b,c   Coric, Tanja ^c,d   Vuletic, Silvije ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Department of Medical Informatics ^*

^c Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^d Social Medicine Service

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING;

EID: 22844442480     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7510.208     Document Type: Short Survey

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