Stroke: Epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics;Epidemiologie, risikofaktoren und genetik

Hamostaseologie

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-297

  Khaw, A V ^a   Kessler, Ch ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genetics; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFESTYLE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEMOSTASIS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; HEART DISEASES; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33751312270     PISSN: 07209355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1616973     Document Type: Review

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