Relationship between the seismic scale of the 2011 northeast Japan earthquake and the incidence of acute myocardial infarction: A population-based study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 861-869

  Tanaka, Fumitaka ^a   Makita, Shinji ^a   Ito, Tomonori ^a   Onoda, Toshiyuki ^a   Sakata, Kiyomi ^a   Nakamura, Motoyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; DEATH; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

AGED; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 84930177317     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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