A prospective community-based study of stroke in Germany - The Erlangen Stroke Project (ESPro): Incidence and case fatality at 1, 3, and 12 months

Stroke

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2501-2506

  Kolominsky Rabas, Peter L ^a   Sarti, Cinzia ^b   Heuschmann, Peter Ulrich ^a   Graf, Christian ^a   Siemonsen, Sven ^a   Neundoerfer, Bernhard ^a   Katalinic, Alexandar ^a   Lang, Erich ^c   Gassmann, Karl Günther ^c   Von Stockert, Theodor Ritter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Waldkrankenhaus St Marien ^*  (Germany)

^d Klinikum am Europakanal   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Germany; Incidence; Mortality; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0031724449     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.29.12.2501     Document Type: Article

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