Female predominance at very young ages and other similarities between finnish and Greek young ischemic stroke patients

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Spengos, Konstantinos ^a   Vemmos, Konstantinos N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FINLAND; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 67650069537     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.555961     Document Type: Letter

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