Cardiovascular disease in special populations III: Stroke

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Liebson, Philip R ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72549110850     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: 17517141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7141.2009.00041.x     Document Type: Editorial

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