Ethnicity and the first diagnosis of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases: Associations in a linked electronic health record cohort of 1 million patients

Julie George; Rohini Mathur; Anoop Dinesh Shah; Mar Pujades-Rodriguez; Spiros Denaxas; Liam Smeeth; Adam Timmis; Harry Hemingway

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178945

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Ethnicity and the first diagnosis of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases: Associations in a linked electronic health record cohort of 1 million patients

Julie George ,

* E-mail: j.george@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2410-2696

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Rohini Mathur,

Affiliation Electronic Health Records Group, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Anoop Dinesh Shah,

Affiliation The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Mar Pujades-Rodriguez,

Affiliations The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Spiros Denaxas,

Affiliation The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Liam Smeeth,

Affiliation Electronic Health Records Group, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Adam Timmis,

Affiliation NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom
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Harry Hemingway

Affiliation The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Ethnicity and the first diagnosis of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases: Associations in a linked electronic health record cohort of 1 million patients

Julie George,
Rohini Mathur,
Anoop Dinesh Shah,
Mar Pujades-Rodriguez,
Spiros Denaxas,
Liam Smeeth,
Adam Timmis,
Harry Hemingway

Published: June 9, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178945

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