Characteristics of heart failure associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-30

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Satake, Hiroyuki ^a   Abe, Akiyo ^a   Kagaya, Yuta ^a   Kohzu, Katuya ^a   Sato, Kenjiro ^a   Nakajima, Sohta ^a   Fukui, Shigefumi ^a   Endo, Hideaki ^a   Takahashi, Tohru ^a   Nozaki, Eiji ^a   Tamaki, Kenji ^b  

^a Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Miyako Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Heart failure; Japan; Stress

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY;

EARTHQUAKE; HEART FAILURE; JAPAN; STRESS;

AGED; EARTHQUAKES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84880038671     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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