Latest statistics on cardiovascular disease in Australia

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 347-356

  Waters, Anne Marie ^a   Trinh, Lany ^a   Chau, Theresa ^a   Bourchier, Michael ^a   Moon, Lynelle ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cardiovascular disease; Case fatality; Hospitalization; Incidence; Inequalities; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISABILITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PROBABILITY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878419631     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12079     Document Type: Article

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