A comparison of underlying cause and multiple causes of death: US vital statistics, 2000-2001

Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-103

  Redelings, Matthew D ^a,b   Sorvillo, Frank ^a   Simon, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROSIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644876869     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000187177.96138.c6     Document Type: Article

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