Risk Factors for First-Ever Stroke in Older People in the North East of England: A Population-Based Study

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-11

  Rodgers, Helen ^a,b,c,d   Greenaway, Jane ^a   Davies, Tina ^a,b,c   Wood, Ruth ^a   Steen, Nicholas ^a   Thomson, Richard ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FIRST EVER STROKE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0347356518     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000106914.60740.78     Document Type: Article

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