Temporal trends and geographic clusters of mortality from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japan, 1995-2004

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 298, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 78-84

  Doi, Yuriko ^a   Yokoyama, Testuji ^a   Tango, Toshiro ^a   Takahashi, Kunihiko ^a   Fujimoto, Kenichi ^b   Nakano, Imaharu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALS; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Cluster analysis; Epidemiology; Japan; Mortality; Motor neuron disease; Trends

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77958150712     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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