Risk factors for short-term mortality in older subjects with acute ischemic stroke

Gerontology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 231-236

  Zuliani, Giovanni ^a   Cherubini, Antonio ^b   Ranzini, Monica ^a   Ruggiero, Carmelinda ^a   Atti, Anna Rita ^a   Fellin, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Ischemic stroke; Risk factor; Short term mortality

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; IRON;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STROKE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 33746354921     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093655     Document Type: Article

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