Incidence of major cardiovascular events in immigrants to Ontario, Canada: The CANHEART immigrant study

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 1549-1559

  Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c   Chu, Anna ^a,c   Rezai, Mohammad R ^a   Guo, Helen ^a   Maclagan, Laura C ^a   Austin, Peter C ^a,c   Booth, Gillian L ^a,c,d   Manuel, Douglas G ^a,c,e   Chiu, Maria ^a   Ko, Dennis T ^a,b,c   Lee, Douglas S ^a,c,f   Shah, Baiju R ^a,c,f   Donovan, Linda R ^a   Sohail, Qazi Zain ^c   Alter, David A ^a,b,c,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; emigrants and immigrants; ethnology; myocardial infarction; risk factors; stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CITIZENSHIP; EAST ASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SOUTH ASIAN;

EID: 84944769091     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015345     Document Type: Article

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