Female gender and mortality after myocardial infarction;Sexo femenino y mortalidad postinfarto de miocardio

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 122, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 576-577

  Cinca, Juan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY REPERFUSION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

EID: 2542499527     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13060893     Document Type: Editorial

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