Our time: A call to save preventable death from cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke)

Global Heart

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 297-305

  Smith, Sidney C ^a   Collins, Amy ^a   Ferrari, Roberto ^e   Holmes, David R ^c   Logstrup, Susanne ^d   McGhie, Diana Vaca ^b   Ralston, Johanna ^a   Sacco, Ralph L ^b   Stam, Hans ^d   Taubert, Kathryn ^a   Wood, David A ^e   Zoghbi, William A ^c  

^a WORLD HEART FEDERATION   (Switzerland)

^b AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

^d European Heart Network   (United States)

^e European Society of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAT INTAKE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT INTAKE; SMOKING; SODIUM INTAKE; URBANIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84870610684     PISSN: 22118160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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