Leading causes of cardiovascular hospitalization in 8.45 million US veterans.

We sought to determine the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization, and to describe and compare national rates of CV hospitalization by age, gender, race, ethnicity, region, and year, among U.S. veterans.We evaluated the electronic health records of all veterans aged ≥18 years who had...

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Main Authors: Nirupama Krishnamurthi, Joseph Francis, Stephan D Fihn, Craig S Meyer, Mary A Whooley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5864414?pdf=render