Hyperglycaemia in acute ischaemic stroke is associated with an increased 5-year mortality

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 590-594

  Kostulas, Nikolaos ^a   Markaki, Ioanna ^a   Cansu, Helen ^a   Masterman, Thomas ^a   Kostulas, Vasilios ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hyperglycemia; Ischemic stroke; Long term mortality

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449092142     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp120     Document Type: Article

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