Midlife respiratory function related to white matter lesions and lacunar infarcts in late life: The prospective population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1658-1662

  Guo, Xinxin ^a,c   Pantoni, Leonardo ^b   Simoni, Michela ^b   Gustafson, Deborah ^a   Bengtsson, Calle ^a   Palmertz, Bo ^c   Skoog, Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lacunar infarction; Leukoaraiosis; Respiratory function tests

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BREATHING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOKING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VITAL CAPACITY;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 33745936262     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000226403.00963.af     Document Type: Article

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