Why a sex difference in age-adjusted relationship between height and stroke mortality? [13]

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Walsh, Thomas ^a   Donnelly, Teresa ^a   Lyons, Declan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY HEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RIGIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34548248678     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.489559     Document Type: Letter

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