Gender differences in recurrent coronary events. The FINMONICA MI register
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Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study.
OBJECTIVE To examine socioeconomic differences in case fatality and prognosis of myocardial infarction (MI) events, and to estimate the contributions of incidence and case fatality to socioeconomic differences in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. DESIGN A population-based MI register study. METHODS The FINMONICA MI Register recorded all MI events among persons aged 35-64 years in thre...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0195-668X
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.2000.2501