What causes increased stroke mortality in patients with prestroke dementia?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 323-327

  Appelros, Peter ^a,b   Viitanen, Matti ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dementia; Mortality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 18644371249     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084690     Document Type: Article

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