Stroke incidence among white, black, and Hispanic residents of an urban community: The Northern Manhattan Stroke Study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-268

  Sacco, Ralph L ^a,c,d   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^b   Gan, Robert ^b   Chen, Xun ^b,c   Kargman, Douglas E ^b   Shea, Steven ^b,c   Paik, Myunghee C ^c   Hauser, W Allen ^a,c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Cerebrovascular disorders; Ethnic groups; Hispanic Americans; Racial stocks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032005478     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009445     Document Type: Article

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