Cardiovascular risk assessment - Where are we going?

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 183-184

  Wilson, Peter W F ^a  

^a American Society of Preventive Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549087141     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: 17517141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7141.2008.07770.x     Document Type: Note

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