The projected impact of population and high-risk strategies for risk-factor control on coronary heart disease and stroke events

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Vartiainen, Erkki A ^a   Laatikainen, Tiina ^a   Philpot, Benjamin ^b   Janus, Edward D ^c   Davis Lameloise, Nathalie ^b   Dunbar, James A ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 79951784211     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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