Hypothyroidism as a protective factor in acute stroke patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-372

  Alevizaki, Maria ^a   Synetou, Margaret ^a   Xynos, Konstantinos ^a   Alevizaki, Calliope C ^b   Vemmos, Kostas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANDINAVIAN STROKE SCALE; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 33747350227     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02606.x     Document Type: Article

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