Stroke in a Biracial Population: The Excess Burden of Stroke among Blacks

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 426-431

  Kissela, Brett ^a   Schneider, Alexander ^a   Kleindorfer, Dawn ^a   Khoury, Jane ^a   Miller, Rosemary ^a   Alwell, Kathleen ^a   Woo, Daniel ^a   Szaflarski, Jerzy ^a   Gebel, James ^a   Moomaw, Charles ^b   Pancioli, Arthur ^c   Jauch, Edward ^c   Shukla, Rakesh ^a   Broderick, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Cerebral infarction; Epidemiology; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Stroke; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; OHIO; OUTPATIENTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10744233065     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000110982.74967.39     Document Type: Review

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