Sex differences in mortality after myocardial infarction: evidence for a sex-age interaction.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on October 12, 1998

Authors

V Vaccarino1, R I Horwitz, T P Meehan, M K Petrillo, M J Radford, H M Krumholz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06520-8034, USA. viola.vaccarino@yale.edu

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