Stroke seasonality associations with subtype, etiology and laboratory results in the Ludwigshafen Stroke Study (LuSSt)

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 373-381

  Palm, Frederick ^a   Santos, Michael Dos ^a   Urbanek, Christian ^a   Greulich, Matthias ^a   Zimmer, Kathrin ^a   Safer, Anton ^b   Grau, Armin Jürgen ^a   Becher, Heiko ^b  

^a Klinik für Endokrinologie Diabetologie und Angiologie Städtisches Klinikum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Seasonal variation; Stroke epidemiology; Stroke incidence

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WINTER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STROKE;

EID: 84879027501     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-013-9772-4     Document Type: Article

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