Coronary heart disease events in Aboriginal Australians: Incidence in an urban population

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 583-586

  Bradshaw, Pamela J ^a   Alfonso, Helman S ^a   Finn, Judith C ^a,b   Owen, Julie ^a   Thompson, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABORIGINE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 68149134510     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02572.x     Document Type: Article

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