Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease in European primary care

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ludt, Sabine ^a   Wensing, Michel ^b   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a   van Lieshout, Jan ^b   Rochon, Justine ^a   Freund, Tobias ^a   Campbell, Stephen M ^a,c   Ose, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EQ 5D SCORE; EUROPEAN UNION; EUROPEP SCORE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84055172784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029334     Document Type: Article

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