Awareness of heart attack symptoms among US adults in 2007, and changes in awareness from 2001 to 2007

Future Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-320

  Fang, Jing ^a   Gillespie, Cathleen ^a   Keenan, Nora L ^a   Greenlund, Kurt J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; heart attack; symptom awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AWARENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958106982     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.10.111     Document Type: Article

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