Gender differences in acute stroke: Istanbul medical school stroke registry

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-179

  Yeşilot, Nilüfer ^a   Koyuncu, Bahar ^a   Çoban, Oguzhan ^a   Tuncay, Rezzan ^a   Bahar, Sara ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; hospital registry; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STROKE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY;

EID: 79955400497     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.79130     Document Type: Article

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