Premature mortality from cardiovascular disease in the Americas - Will the goal of a decline of "25% by 2025" be met?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Ordunez, Pedro ^a   Prieto Lara, Elisa ^a   Gawryszewski, Vilma Pinheiro ^a   Hennis, Anselm J M ^a   Cooper, Richard S ^b  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GUYANA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PREMATURE MORTALITY; TREND STUDY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84949956490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141685     Document Type: Article

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