International trends in mortality from stroke, 1968 to 1994

Stroke

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1588-1601

  Sarti, Cinzia ^a   Rastenyte, Daiva ^b   Cepaitis, Zygimantas ^a   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Mortality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; STROKE;

EID: 0033937684     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.7.1588     Document Type: Article

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