Relationship between supra-annual trends in influenza rates and stroke occurrence

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 228-235

  Field, Thalia S ^a   Zhu, Hongmei ^a   Tarrant, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Ross J ^a   Hill, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ICD 9; Influenza; Respiratory tract infection; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBERTA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS;

EID: 4444233365     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079948     Document Type: Article

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