Incidence, admission and case-fatality of acute myocardial infarction: Weekend versus weekday in a Japanese population: 16-year results from Takashima AMI Registry (1988-2003)

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-100

  Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Rumana, Nahid ^a   Sugihara, Hideki ^b   Morita, Yutaka ^c   Tomioka, Nobuyoshi ^d   Okayama, Akira ^e   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^f   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Takashima General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Makino Hospital   (Japan)

^d OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care   (Japan)

^f KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI); Admission rate; Case fatality rate; Epidemiology; Incidence rate

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60449105917     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-008-9308-5     Document Type: Article

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