Trends in age-specific coronary heart disease mortality in the European Union over three decades: 1980-2009

European Heart Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 3017-3027

  Nichols, Melanie ^a,b   Townsend, Nick ^a   Scarborough, Peter ^a   Rayner, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Mortality; Trends; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE AND SEX; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

CORONARY HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULTS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT EFFECT; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84884404691     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht159     Document Type: Article

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