Stroke in Isfahan, Iran: Hospital admission and 28-day case fatality rate

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 495-499

  Oveisgharan, Shahram ^a,b,c   Sarrafzadegan, Nizal ^a   Shirani, Shahin ^a   Hosseini, Shidokht ^a   Hasanzadeh, Parisa ^b   Khosravi, Alireza ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epidemiology, Isfahan; Stroke, Middle East

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CALCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37349090437     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000110418     Document Type: Article

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