Atrial fibrillation in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: A cross-sectional study

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wong, Christopher X ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Cheng, Yi Han ^a   Lau, Dennis H ^a   Rangnekar, Geetanjali ^a   Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^b,c   Brown, Alex ^d   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DIAMETER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CAUCASIAN; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84911425671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006242     Document Type: Article

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