Ten-year trends of heart disease risk factors in the Halifax county MONICA population

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1017-1024

  Gregor, Ronald D ^a   Bata, Iqbal R ^a   Eastwood, Brian J ^a   Wolf, Hermann K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coronary disease epidemiology; Coronary disease mortality; Longitudinal studies; Risk factors; Social class

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOVA SCOTIA; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 7344266328     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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