Screening reduces all cause mortality in men

BMJ

Volumn 335, Issue 7626, 2007, Pages 899-

  Takagi, Hisato ^a   Kawai, Norikazu ^a   Umemoto, Takuya ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; AGED; MALE; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 35948948678     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39381.375972.BE     Document Type: Letter

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