Age- and ethnic-specific sex differences in stroke risk

Gender Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-128

  Sealy Jefferson, Shawnita ^a   Wing, Jeffrey J ^a   Sánchez, Brisa N ^a   Brown, Devin L ^b   Meurer, William J ^b,c   Smith, Melinda A ^b   Morgenstern, Lewis B ^a,b,c   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

age specific stroke incidence; BASIC Project; epidemiology; ethnicity; incident stroke; sex specific stroke incidence; stroke risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84862779798     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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