Drop attacks revisited: Yet another manifestation of cardiovascular disease?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 161-162

  Rich, Michael W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROP ATTACK; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TILT TABLE TEST; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VISUAL ACUITY; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; SYNCOPE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 14544300175     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53028.x     Document Type: Editorial

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