Program of rehabilitative exercise and education to avert vascular events after non-disabling stroke or transient ischemic attack (PREVENT Trial): A multi-centred, randomised controlled trial

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  MacKay Lyons, Marilyn ^a   Gubitz, Gordon ^b   Giacomantonio, Nicholas ^b   Wightman, Howard ^c   Marsters, David ^c   Thompson, Kara ^b   Blanchard, Chris ^b   Eskes, Gail ^b   Thornton, Marianne ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Valley Regional Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STROKE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK REDUCTION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE;

EID: 78649799206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-122     Document Type: Article

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