Stroke epidemiology, patterns of management, and outcomes in Fortaleza, Brazil: A hospital-based multicenter prospective study

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3341-3346

  De Carvalho, João Josá Freitas ^a   Alves, Monique Bueno ^b   Viana, Georgiana Álvares Andrade ^c   Machado, Cícera Borges ^c   Dos Santos, Bento Fortunato Cardoso ^b   Kanamura, Alberto Hideki ^b   Lottenberg, Claudio Luiz ^b   Neto, Miguel Cendoroglo ^b   Silva, Gisele Sampaio ^d  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^c Department of Health ^*  (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; South America; Stroke care

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAZIL; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNDETERMINED STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAZIL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856223819     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.626523     Document Type: Article

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