Female survival advantage relates to male inferiority rather than female superiority: A hypothesis based on the impact of age and stroke severity on 1-week to 1-year case fatality in 40,155 men and women

Gender Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 284-295

  Olsen, Tom Skyhøj ^a   Andersen, Klaus Kaae ^b  

^a FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

age; gender; mortality; stroke; stroke severity

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROKE; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DENMARK; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTMENOPAUSE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77957370115     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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