Validation of the ABCD score in identifying individuals at high early risk of stroke after a transient ischemic attack: A hospital-based case series study

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2892-2897

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,b   Spengos, Konstantinos ^a   Manta, Panagiota ^a   Karandreas, Nikolaos ^a   Zambelis, Thomas ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Vassilopoulos, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ABCD score; Prognosis; Stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ABCD SCORE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GREECE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEAKNESS;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845390569     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000249007.12256.4a     Document Type: Article

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