Cardiovascular mortality in the UK: Good news if you live in the South

Heart

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 1180-1181

  Timmis, Adam ^a  

^a NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGING; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; UNITED KINGDOM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84941568797     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307887     Document Type: Editorial

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