Acute coronary syndrome, comorbidity, and mortality in geriatric patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 106-110

  Taneva, E ^a   Bogdanova, V ^a   Shtereva, N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Comorbidity; Geriatrics; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE;

ANGINA;

EID: 3242667005     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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