Presence of intracranial artery calcification is associated with mortality and vascular events in patients with ischemic stroke after hospital discharge: A cohort study

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3447-3453

  Bugnicourt, Jean Marc ^a,b,c   Leclercq, Claire ^a   Chillon, Jean Marc ^c,d   Diouf, Momar ^a   Deramond, Hervé ^a   Canaple, Sandrine ^a   Lamy, Chantal ^a,b   Massy, Ziad A ^a,c,d   Godefroy, Olivier ^a,b  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Amiens University Medical Center and Jules Verne University of Picardy   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; All cause mortality; Calcifications; Cardiovascular risk; Outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84856215521     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.618652     Document Type: Article

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