Reducing the global burden of stroke: INTERSTROKE

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9735, 2010, Pages 74-75

  Tu, Jack V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 77955013329     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60975-0     Document Type: Note

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