Comparison of Expert Adjudicated Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality With the National Death Index: Results From the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study

BACKGROUND: The National Death Index (NDI) is widely used to detect coronary heart disease (CHD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths, but its reliability has not been examined recently. METHODS AND RESULTS: We compared CHD and CVD deaths detected by NDI with expert adjudication of 4010 deaths th...

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Published in:J Am Heart Assoc
Main Authors: Olubowale, Olusola Tope, Safford, Monika M., Brown, Todd M., Durant, Raegan W., Howard, Virginia J., Gamboa, Christopher, Glasser, Stephen P., Rhodes, J. David, Levitan, Emily B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524068/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28468785
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.004966
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