Gender differences in presentation and diagnosis of chest pain in primary care

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bösner, Stefan ^a   Haasenritter, Jörg ^a   Hani, Maren A ^a   Keller, Heidi ^a   Sönnichsen, Andreas C ^b   Karatolios, Konstantinos ^a   Schaefer, Juergen R ^a   Baum, Erika ^a   Donner Banzhoff, Norbert ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEST PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 75149168001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-10-79     Document Type: Article

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