Socioeconomic status and transient ischaemic attack/stroke: A prospective observational study

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-137

  Kerr, Gillian D ^a   Higgins, Peter ^a   Walters, Matthew ^a   Ghosh, Sandip K ^b   Wright, Fiona ^c   Langhorne, Peter ^a   Stott, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AYR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Co morbidity; Health care access; Socioeconomic status; Stroke; Transient ischaemic attack; Vascular risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICS; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; STROKE UNIT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 78649320878     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321732     Document Type: Article

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