Lower Prevalence of Carotid Plaque Hemorrhage in Women, and Its Mediator Effect on Sex Differences in Recurrent Cerebrovascular Events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kandiyil, Neghal ^a,b   Altaf, Nishath ^a,b   Hosseini, Akram A ^a   MacSweeney, Shane T ^b   Auer, Dorothee P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS PLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84868158581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047319     Document Type: Article

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