The international pandemic of chronic cardiovascular disease

JAMA

Volumn 297, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1253-1255

  McDermott, Mary McGrae ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; REGISTER;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; REGISTRIES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33947524702     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.297.11.1253     Document Type: Editorial

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