ABCD2 score predicts severity rather than risk of early recurrent events after transient ischemic attack

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 851-856

  Chandratheva, Arvind ^a   Geraghty, Olivia C ^a   Luengo Fernandez, Ramon ^a   Rothwell, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prevention; Prognosis; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ABCD SCORE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VISUAL DISORDER; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951765262     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.570010     Document Type: Article

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