Stroke in the very old: Clinical presentations and outcomes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-475

  Muangpaisan, Weerasak ^a,b   Hinkle, Janice L ^a,c   Westwood, Martin ^d   Kennedy, James ^a   Buchan, Alastair M ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47049128245     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn096     Document Type: Letter

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