Gender Differences in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-57

  Caso, Valeria ^a   Paciaroni, Maurizio ^a   Agnelli, Giancarlo ^a   Corea, Francesco ^b   Ageno, Walter ^c   Alberti, Andrea ^a   Lanari, Alessia ^d   Micheli, Sara ^e   Bertolani, Luca ^d   Venti, Michele ^a   Palmerini, Francesco ^a   Billeci, Antonia MR ^a   Comi, Giancarlo ^f   Previdi, Paolo ^d   Silvestrelli, Giorgio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Nuovo Ospedale San Giovanni Battista   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d CARLO POMA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e USL 3 Umbria   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

gender; ischemia; outcome; stroke

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951214866     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/WHE.09.82     Document Type: Article

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