Impending epidemic - Future projection of heart failure in Japan to the year 2055

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-491

  Okura, Yuji ^a   Ramadan, Mahmoud M ^a   Ohno, Yukiko ^a   Mitsuma, Wataru ^a   Tanaka, Komei ^a   Ito, Masahiro ^a   Suzuki, Keisuke ^b   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Kodama, Makoto ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Sado General Hiospital ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Future projection; Heart failure; Japan

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; EPIDEMIC; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 42649108396     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.489     Document Type: Article

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