25 Year trends in first time hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction, subsequent short and long term mortality, and the prognostic impact of sex and comorbidity: A Danish nationwide cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7842, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Morten ^a   Jacobsen, Jacob Bonde ^a   Lash, Timothy L ^a   Bøtker, Hans Erik ^a   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ONSET AGE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX RATIO; TREND STUDY; ULCER; DENMARK; HEART INFARCTION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857723303     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e356     Document Type: Article

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