Prospective community-based study of stroke in Northern Portugal: Incidence and case fatality in rural and urban populations

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2048-2053

  Correia, Manuel ^a   Silva, Mário R ^b   Matos, Ilda ^c   Magalhães, Rui ^d   Lopes, J Castro ^a   Ferro, José M ^e   Silva, M Carolina ^d  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

^b Hospital de S Pedro   (Portugal)

^c Hospital Distrital de Mirandela   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fatal outcome; Incidence; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY; CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STROKE; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN EUROPE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 4344675745     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000137606.34301.13     Document Type: Article

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