Improving Cardiovascular Health in a Rural Population: Can Other Communities Do the Same?

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-140

  Labarthe, Darwin R ^a   Stamler, Jeremiah ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING CESSATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84920973336     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.16963     Document Type: Editorial

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