Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality over the 20th century in England and Wales: Possible plateaus in the rate of decline

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Allender, Steven ^a   Scarborough, Peter ^a   O'Flaherty, Martin ^b   Capewell, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; WALES;

EID: 44049097802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-148     Document Type: Article

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