Heart failure in Southeast Asia: facts and numbers

ESC Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 46-49

  Lam, Carolyn S P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Heart failure; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014866997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20555822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.12036     Document Type: Editorial

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