Reduced medication access: A marker for vulnerability in US stroke survivors

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1557-1564

  Levine, Deborah A ^a,b   Kiefe, Catarina I ^a,b   Howard, George ^c   Howard, Virginia J ^c   Williams, O Dale ^b   Allison, Jeroan J ^a,b  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b and Clinical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Secondary prevention; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEX RATIO; STROKE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247596440     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.106.478545     Document Type: Article

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