Sex differences in presentation, severity, and management of stroke in a population-based study

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 975-981

  Gall, S L ^a,c   Donnan, G ^a,b,d   Dewey, H M ^b,c,d   MacDonell, R ^b,c,d   Sturm, J ^b,f   Gilligan, A ^b,c,d,g   Srikanth, V ^b,e   Thrift, A G ^b,e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f GOSFORD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g Box Hill   (Australia)

^h BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHASIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCONTINENCE; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NAUSEA; NEGLECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERTIGO; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 77949903803     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181d5a48f     Document Type: Article

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