Recent racial/ethnic disparities in stroke hospitalizations and outcomes for young adults in Florida, 2001-2006

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 302-311

  Pathak, Elizabeth Barnett ^a,c   Sloan, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Case fatality; Hispanics; Hospitalizations; Mortality; Stroke; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849113259     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000208795     Document Type: Article

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