Seasonal influenza infections and cardiovascular disease mortality

JAMA Cardiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 274-281

  Nguyen, Jennifer L ^a   Yang, Wan ^a   Ito, Kazuhiko ^b   Matte, Thomas D ^b   Shaman, Jeffrey ^a   Kinney, Patrick L ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VITAL STATISTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEW YORK CITY; SEASONS;

EID: 84994710519     PISSN: 23806583     EISSN: 23806591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.0433     Document Type: Article

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