Recent trends in coronary heart disease epidemiology in India

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. B, 2008, Pages

  Gupta, Rajeev ^a,b  

^a Monilek Hospital and Research Centre   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FRUIT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA; VEGETABLE; WESTERN EUROPE;

CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 48749088694     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: 00194832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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