Incidence and risk factors of silent brain infarcts in the population-based Rotterdam Scan Study

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 392-396

  Vermeer, Sarah E ^a   Den Heijer, Tom ^a   Koudstaal, Peter J ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^b   Hofman, Albert ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Incidence; Magnetic resonance imagining; Population; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037322542     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000052631.98405.15     Document Type: Article

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