Partner's smoking status and acute coronary syndrome: Population-based case-control study in Tirana, Albania

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 751-756

  Sulo, Gerhard ^a   Burazeri, Genc ^a   Dehghan, Abbas ^b   Kark, Jeremy D ^c  

^a University of Tirana Faculty of Medicine   (Albania)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALBANIA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; MIDDLE AGED; PASSIVE SMOKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALBANIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 63249090240     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2008.49.751     Document Type: Article

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