Current status of the background of patients with coronary artery disease in Japan - The Japanese coronary artery disease study (The JCAD Study)

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1256-1262

  Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Internet registration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749019494     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.1256     Document Type: Article

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