Prevalence of silent stroke in Kurdistan, Iraq

Neurosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 167-171

  Al Shimmery, Ehsan K ^a   Amein, Saddam H ^a   Al Tawil, Namir G ^a  

^a HAWLER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRAQ; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SILENT BRAIN INFARCTION; SILENT STROKE; SMOKING; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

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