Impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with cardiac origin in non-disaster reas

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 185-188

  Kiyohara, Kosuke ^a   Kitamura, Tetsuhisa ^b   Iwami, Taku ^c   Nishiyama, Chika ^c   Kawamura, Takashi ^c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; POISSON RATIO;

JAPAN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COMPLICATION; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; TSUNAMI; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TSUNAMIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922682708     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-204380     Document Type: Article

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