Coronary angiographic findings and conventional coronary artery disease risk factors of Indo-Guyanese immigrants with stable angina pectoris and acute coronary syndromes

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-14

  Silbiger, Jeffrey J ^a   Stein, Russell ^a   Trost, Biana ^a   Shaffer, Jonathan ^b   Kim, Jin Hee ^a   Cohen, Pilar ^a   Kamran, Mazullah ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD risk factors; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Guyana; Indo Guyanese

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GUYANA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861695652     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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