First-ever stroke incidence and 30-day case fatality in the sicilian Aeolian archipelago, Italy

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2738-2741

  Musolino, Rosa ^a   La Spina, Paolino ^a   Serra, Salvatore ^a   Postorino, Paolo ^a   Calabró, Salvatore ^a   Savica, Rodolfo ^a   Salemi, Giovanni ^b   Gallitto, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIET; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STROKE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33644681177     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000190907.88846.df     Document Type: Article

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