Association of daily tar and nicotine intake with incident myocardial infarction: Results from the population-based MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study 1984 - 2002

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Qiu Li ^a   Baumert, Jens ^a   Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Meisinger, Christa ^a   Döring, Angela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; TAR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SMOKING;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NICOTINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SMOKING; TARS;

EID: 79955492948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-273     Document Type: Article

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