Validity of self-reported stroke in elderly African Americans, Caribbean Hispanics, and Whites

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 834-840

  Reitz, Christiane ^a,b   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,c   Luchsinger, José A ^a,c   Brickman, Adam M ^a,b   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,b   Andrews, Howard ^c   Tang, Ming X ^b,c   DeCarli, Charles ^e   Brown, Truman R ^a,d   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACCURACY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; VALIDITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 67650463117     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.83     Document Type: Article

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