Diurnal and seasonal variation of stroke incidence in patients with cardioembolic stroke due to atrial fibrillation

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 204-210

  Spengos, Konstantinos ^a,b   Vemmos, Konstantinos ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Manios, Efstathios ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Mavrikakis, Myron ^a   Vassilopoulos, Demitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b 'Alexandra' Hospital ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioembolic stroke; Diurnal variation; Seasonal variation; Siesta; Stroke onset

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLEEP; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STROKE; SUMMER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WINTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS;

EID: 0344951183     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069897     Document Type: Article

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