Assessing cardiovascular risk in regional areas: The Healthy Hearts - Beyond City Limits program

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carrington, Melinda J ^a   Jennings, Garry L ^a   Clark, Robyn A ^b   Stewart, Simon ^a  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Prevention; Risk assessment; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 84865575406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-296     Document Type: Article

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