Stroke: Awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors - A population-based survey

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-140

  Parahoo, Kader ^a   Thompson, Kate ^a   Cooper, Marian ^a   Stringer, Maurice ^a   Ennis, Edel ^a   McCollam, Paddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Knowledge; Northern Ireland; Risk factors; Stroke; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN IRELAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0037942605     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070593     Document Type: Article

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