Etiology, duration, and prognosis of transient ischemic attacks: An analysis from the german stroke data bank

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1584-1588

  Weimar, Christian ^a   Kraywinkel, Klaus ^a   Rödl, Joachim ^b   Hippe, André ^c   Harms, Lutz ^d   Kloth, Antje ^e   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC EMBOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036790727     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.59.10.1584     Document Type: Article

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