Design and baseline characteristics of a coronary heart disease prospective cohort: two-year experience from the strategy of registry of acute coronary syndrome study (ERICO study)

OBJECTIVES: To describe the ERICO study (Strategy of Registry of Acute Coronary Syndrome), a prospective cohort to investigate the epidemiology of acute coronary syndrome. METHODS: The ERICO study, which is being performed at a secondary general hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, is enrolling consecutiv...

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Main Authors: Alessandra C. Goulart, Itamar S. Santos, Debora Sitnik, Henrique L. Staniak, Ligia M. Fedeli, Carlos Alberto Pastore, Nelson Samesima, Marcio S. Bittencourt, Alexandre C. Pereira, Paulo A. Lotufo, Isabela M. Bensenor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2013-01-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322013000300027