Differences in stroke subtypes between black and white patients with stroke: The South London Ethnicity and Stroke Study

Circulation

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2157-2164

  Markus, Hugh S ^a   Khan, Usman ^a   Birns, Jonathan ^b   Evans, Andrew ^b   Kalra, Lalit ^b   Rudd, Anthony G ^c   Wolfe, Charles D A ^c   Jerrard Dunne, Paula ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Lacunar stroke; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARIBBEAN REGION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; LONDON; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 35848962091     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.699785     Document Type: Article

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