Stroke risk of asymptomatic intra- and extracranial large-artery disease in apparently healthy adults

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 263-270

  Takahashi, Wakoh ^a   Ohnuki, Tomohide ^a   Ide, Michiru ^b   Takagi, Shigeharu ^a   Shinohara, Yukito ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIMEDIC Imaging Center at Lake Yamanaka   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid stenosis; Magnetic resonance angiography; Risk factors; Stroke; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33748344010     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094014     Document Type: Article

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