Fluctuations in male ischaemic heart disease mortality in Russia 1959-1998: Assessing the importance of alcohol

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 390-395

  Ramstedt, Mats ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Ischaemic heart disease mortality; Russia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUSSIA; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349335487     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2009.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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