Increased risk of acute myocardial infarction after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 206-212

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Nozaki, Eiji ^a   Fukui, Shigefumi ^a   Endo, Hideaki ^a   Takahashi, Tohru ^a   Tamaki, Kenji ^b  

^a Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Miyako Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Japan; Myocardial infarction; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISASTER; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897020618     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-013-0353-y     Document Type: Article

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