Cardiovascular disease and risk factors in Asia: A selected review

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 2702-2709

  Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a   Sekikawa, Akira ^a,b   Miura, Katsuyuki ^a   Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^a   Takashima, Naoyuki ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a,c   Kadota, Aya ^a   Okuda, Nagako ^a   Kadowaki, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a,d   Okamura, Tomonori ^a,c  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Epidemiology; Myocardial infarction; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 58349103535     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.790048     Document Type: Article

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