Diabetes status and racial differences in post-myocardial infarction mortality

American Heart Journal

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 912-919

  Kamalesh, Masoor ^a,d   Subramanian, Usha ^a   Ariana, Anahita ^b   Sawada, Stephen ^a   Peterson, Eric ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RICHARD L ROUDEBUSH VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRESSLER SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27744587344     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.02.042     Document Type: Article

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