Unhealthy lifestyles and ischaemic electrocardiographic abnormalities: The Persian Gulf Healthy Heart Study

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 858-868

  Nabipour, I ^a   Amiri, M ^a   Imami, S R ^a   Jahfari, S M ^a   Nosrati, A ^a   Iranpour, D ^a   Soltanian, A R ^a  

^a BUSHEHR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 53649087115     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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