Impact of severe earthquake on the occurrence of acute coronary syndrome and stroke in a rural area of Japan experience from the Noto Peninsula earthquake

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1243-1247

  Tsuchida, Masayuki ^a,b   Kawashiri, Masa Aki ^a   Teramoto, Ryota ^a,b   Takata, Mutsuko ^a   Sakata, Kenji ^a   Omi, Wataru ^a   Okajima, Masaki ^a   Takamura, Masayuki ^a   Ino, Hidekazu ^a   Kita, Yoshihito ^b   Takegoshi, Tadayoshi ^b   Inaba, Hideo ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Cerebral hemorrhage; Earthquake; Stress

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; RURAL AREA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 68149159868     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0812     Document Type: Article

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