No evidence of increased prevalence of premature coronary artery disease in New York City police officers as predicted by coronary artery calcium scoring

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 661-665

  Wanahita, Nikolas ^a   Lin See, Jia ^a   Giedd, Kenneth N ^a   Friedmann, Patricia ^a   Somekh, Nir N ^a   Bergmann, Steven R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DUST; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICE; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERRORISM;

ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; POLICE; PREVALENCE; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954033139     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181e36457     Document Type: Article

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