Cardiovascular events during World Cup Soccer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-483

  Wilbert Lampen, Ute ^a   Leistner, David ^a   Greven, Sonja ^b   Pohl, Tilmann ^a   Sper, Sebastian ^a   Völker, Christoph ^a   Güthlin, Denise ^b   Plasse, Andrea ^a   Knez, Andreas ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORTING EVENT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 38749135817     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0707427     Document Type: Article

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