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High prevalence of lack of knowledge of symptoms of acute myocardial infarction inPakistan and its contribution to delayed presentationto the hospital

BACKGROUND: We conducted an observational study to determine the delay in presentation to hospital, and its associates among patients experiencing first Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted at National Institute of Card...

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Autores principales: Khan, Muhammad S, Jafary, Fahim H, Faruqui, Azhar M, Rasool, Syed I, Hatcher, Juanita, Chaturvedi, Nish, Jafar, Tazeen H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17922923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-284