Post-stroke case fatality within an incident population in rural Tanzania

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1001-1005

  Walker, Richard W ^a,b   Jusabani, Ahmed ^c   Aris, Eric ^d   Gray, William K ^a   Whiting, David ^e   Kabadi, Gregory ^f   Mugusi, Ferdinand ^d   Swai, Mark ^c   Alberti, George ^g   Unwin, Nigel ^b,h  

^a NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d Muhimbili Hospital   (Tanzania)

^e International Diabetes Federation   (Belgium)

^f IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE FATALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATE OF DEATH; DEATH; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TANZANIA; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051544467     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.231944     Document Type: Article

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