Afternoon nap, meal ingestion and circadian variation of acute myocardial infarction

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-340

  Kolettis, Theofilos M ^a   Papathanasiou, Athanasios ^a   Tziallas, Dimitrios ^a   Milionis, Haralambos J ^a   Kastanioti, Catherine K ^a   Achenbach, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Circadian periodicity; Siesta

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; NIGHT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP;

EID: 37349030413     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.11.164     Document Type: Article

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