A population-based study of the incidence and prognosis of lacunar stroke

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1335-1338

  Sacco, S ^a   Marini, C ^a   Totaro, R ^a   Russo, T ^a   Cerone, D ^a   Carolei, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ITALY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646702638     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000210457.89798.0e     Document Type: Article

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