Seasonal variation in hospitalizations due to heart failure in Niterói city, Southeastern Brazil;Variação sazonal nas hospitalizações por insuficiência cardíaca em Niterói, RJ

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-557

  Loureiro Jorge, Jose Eduardo ^a   Cagy, Mauricio ^b   Mesquita, Evandro Tinoco ^a   da Costa, Thiago L M ^a   Moscavitch, Samuel Datum ^a   Garcia Rosa, Maria Luiza ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Computaçáo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heart failure epidemiology ; Hospital services; Hospitalization; Temporal distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; STATISTICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949198031     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102009005000018     Document Type: Article

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