Recent age- and gender-specific trends in mortality during stroke hospitalization in the United States

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 379-387

  Ovbiagele, Bruce ^a   Markovic, Daniela ^b   Towfighi, Amytis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; In hospital; Mortality; National; Outcomes; Patterns; Prognosis; Stroke; Trends; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053216464     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2011.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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