Prevalence of carotid stenosis in a high-risk caribbean population

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1892-1893

  Brown, Hilary A ^a   Lawrence Wright, Marilyn B ^a   Shah, Sundeep ^a   Lawrence, Sara G ^a   Gilbert, David ^a   Crandon, Ivor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMICS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK; SMOKING; STROKE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SMOKING; STROKE; WEST INDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549151200     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.535310     Document Type: Article

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