Trends in acute myocardial infarction incidence and mortality over 30 years in Japan: Report from the MIYAGI-AMI registry study

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-100

  Takii, Toru ^a   Yasuda, Satoshi ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a   Ito, Kenta ^a   Shiba, Nobuyuki ^a   Shirato, Kunio ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Aging; Gender; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; UROKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 75149152485     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0619     Document Type: Article

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