Long term postischemic stroke mortality in diabetes: A veteran cohort analysis

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2727-2731

  Kamalesh, Masoor ^a,c   Shen, Jianzhao ^b   Eckert, George J ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RICHARD L ROUDEBUSH VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Mortality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RATING SCALE; RISK; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL TIME; VETERAN; STATISTICS; STROKE; TIME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; STROKE; TIME; VETERANS;

EID: 54049084576     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.517441     Document Type: Article

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