Short- and medium-term survival following coronary artery bypass surgery in British Indo-Asian and white Caucasian individuals: Impact of diabetes mellitus

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 389-393

  Hadjinikolaou, Leonidas ^a,b   Klimatsidas, Michael ^a   Iacona, Gabriele Maria ^a   Spyt, Tomasz ^a,b   Samani, Nilesh J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Ethnicity; Five year survival; Postoperative mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649304840     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.210567     Document Type: Article

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