Stroke in urban and rural populations in north-east Bulgaria: Incidenceandcase fatality findings from a `hot pursuit` study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-9

  Powles, John ^a   Kirov, Philip ^b   Feschieva, Nevijana ^c   Stanoev, Marin ^c   Atanasova, Virginia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ST MARINA   (Bulgaria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; URBAN POPULATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BULGARIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 18744412950     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-24     Document Type: Article

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