Metabolic syndrome and its components as predictors of ischemic stroke in type 2 diabetic patients

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1036-1038

  Protopsaltis, Ioannis ^a   Korantzopoulos, Panagiotis ^b   Milionis, Haralampos J ^b   Koutsovasilis, Anastasios ^d   Nikolopoulos, Georgios K ^c   Dimou, Eftihia ^a   Kokkoris, Stelios ^a   Brestas, Paris ^a   Elisaf, Moses S ^b   Melidonis, Andreas ^a  

^a 'Tzanio' General Hospital of Piraeus   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Ischemic stroke; Metabolic syndrome; Risk factors; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STROKE;

EID: 41249091783     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.498311     Document Type: Article

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