Trends in and disparities for acute myocardial infarction: an analysis of Medicare claims data from 1992 to 2010.

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Published in BMC Med on October 24, 2014

Authors

Jasvinder A Singh1, Xin Lu2, Said Ibrahim3, Peter Cram4,5

Author Affiliations

1: Medicine Service, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 510 S 20th Street, Faculty Office Tower 805B, Birmingham, AL, 35294, UK. jasvinder.md@gmail.com.
2: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and CADRE, Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center, 451 Newton Road 200 Medicine Administration Building, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. xin-lu@uiowa.edu.
3: Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Perelman University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. ibrahims@mail.med.upenn.edu.
4: Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospitals, 200 Elizabeth Street, Eaton North 14th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada. Peter.Cram@uhn.ca.
5: Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Peter.Cram@uhn.ca.

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