Record linked retrospective cohort study of 4.6 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease: Myocardial infarction in South Asians

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fischbacher, C M ^a,c   Bhopal, R ^c   Povey, C ^a   Steiner, M ^c   Chalmers, J ^a   Mueller, G ^b   Jamieson, J ^a   Knowles, D ^a  

^a INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^b General Register Office for Scotland   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH ASIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; AGED; ASIA; ASIAN; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; MANAGEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548485537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-142     Document Type: Article

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