Epidemiology of nonfatal stroke and transient Ischemic attack in Al-Kharga district, New Valley, Egypt

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 1785-1790

  Farghaly, Wafaa M A ^a   El Tallawy, Hamdy N ^a   Shehata, Ghaydaa A ^a   Rageh, Tarek A ^a   Abdel Hakeem, Nabil M ^b   Abd Elhamed, Mohamed A ^a   Al Fawal, Bastawy M A ^c   Badry, Reda ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; EMBOLIC STROKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONFATAL STROKE; PARENCHYMAL HEMORRHAGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOTIC STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84887842629     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S48322     Document Type: Article

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