Outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in South Asian, Chinese, and white patients

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1570-1577

  Khan, Nadia A ^a   Grubisic, Maja ^a   Hemmelgarn, Brenda ^b   Humphries, Karen ^a   King, Kathryn M ^b   Quan, Hude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

epidemiology; ethnicity; mortality; myocardial infarction; patients

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78049518033     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.850297     Document Type: Article

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