Risk factors for death from stroke in middle-aged Lithuanian men: Results from a 20-year prospective study

Stroke

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 672-676

  Rastenyte, Daiva ^a   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^b   Domarkiene, Stanislava ^a   Cepaitis, Zygimantas ^b   Reklaitiene, Regina ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lithuania; mortality; prospective studies; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; USSR;

EID: 0029864247     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.27.4.672     Document Type: Article

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