Evaluation and Comparison of the Minnesota Code and Novacode for Electrocardiographic Q-ST Wave Abnormalities for the Independent Prediction of Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Total Mortality (from the Women's Health Initiative)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Zhu ming ^a   Prineas, Ronald J ^a   Eaton, Charles B ^b  

^a EPICARE Center   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINNESOTA CODE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOVACODE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE;

EID: 77953711038     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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