Estimated prevalence of acoustic cranial windows and intracranial stenosis in the US elderly population: Ultrasound screening in adults for intracranial disease study

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-71

  Suri, M Fareed K ^a   Georgiadis, Alexandros L ^a   Tariq, Nauman ^a   Vazquez, Gabriela ^a   Qureshi, Naeem ^a   Qureshi, Adnan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged population; Cerebral infarction prevention; Cerebrovascular accident; Cerebrovascular disease; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Intracranial stenosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051781179     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: 14230208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327757     Document Type: Article

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