Stroke case fatality shows seasonal variation regardless of risk factor status in a Japanese population: 15-Year results from the Takashima stroke registry

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-60

  Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Rumana, Nahid ^a   Murakami, Yoshitaka ^a   Ichikawa, Masaharu ^c   Sugihara, Hideki ^c   Morita, Yutaka ^d   Tomioka, Nobuyoshi ^b   Okayama, Akira ^e   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^f   Abbott, Robert D ^a,g   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Takashima General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Makino Hospital   (Japan)

^e First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care   (Japan)

^f KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke, fatality; Case fatality, seasonal variation; Ischemic stroke, Japan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LACUNAR STROKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUMMER; WINTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 55549117801     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000170907     Document Type: Article

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