Overestimation of coronary risk in stroke patients [1]

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Touzé, Emmanuel ^a   Varenne, Olivier ^a   Mas, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ASSAY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34848841891     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.491258     Document Type: Letter

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