Influence of gender on baseline features and clinical outcomes among 17,370 patients with confirmed ischaemic stroke in the international stroke trial

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 123-128

  Niewada, Maciej ^a,b   Kobayashi, Adam ^a,b   Sandercock, Peter A G ^c   Kamiński, Bogumił ^d   Członkowska, Anna ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Disability; Gender; Mortality; Recovery; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNDROME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18744384376     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082999     Document Type: Article

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