A review of stroke admissions at a tertiary hospital in rural Southwestern Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 80-85

  Desalu, Olufemi O ^a   Wahab, Kolawole W ^a   Fawale, Bimbo ^b   Olarenwaju, Timothy O ^a   Busari, Olusegun A ^b   Adekoya, Adebowale O ^c   Afolayan, Joshua Oluwafemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

^c LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Clinical patterns; Nigeria; outcome; risk factor; rural urban variations; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79959970653     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.82061     Document Type: Review

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