Gender differences in in-hospital mortality and mechanisms of death after the first acute myocardial infarction

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 455-460

  Fabijanic, Damir ^a,b   Culic, Viktor ^a   Bozic, Ivo ^a   Miric, Dinko ^a   Stojanovic Stipic, Sanda ^a   Radic, Mislav ^a   Vucinovic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 33846690581     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2006.455     Document Type: Article

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