Impact of stepwise introduction of smoke-free legislation on population rates of acute myocardial infarction deaths in Flanders, Belgium

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1430-1435

  Cox, Bianca ^a   Vangronsveld, Jaco ^a   Nawrot, Tim S ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX RATIO; SMOKING BAN; TREND STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

MYOCARDIAL ISCHAEMIA AND INFARCTION (IHD);

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKE-FREE POLICY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906790578     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305613     Document Type: Article

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