Incidence and case fatality rates of first-ever stroke in a Black Caribbean population: The Barbados register of strokes

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1254-1258

  Corbin, David O C ^a   Poddar, Vishal ^a   Hennis, Anselm ^a   Gaskin, Angela ^a   Rambarat, Cecil ^a   Wilks, Rainford ^b   Wolfe, Charles D A ^c   Fraser, Henry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Epidemiology; Ethnic groups; Incidence; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACUNAR INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEGRO; PARTIAL ANTERIOR CIRCULATION INFARCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOTAL ANTERIOR CIRCULATION INFARCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BARBADOS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES;

EID: 2542568207     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000127371.24658.df     Document Type: Article

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