Stroke risk factors in an incident population in urban and rural Tanzania: A prospective, community-based, case-control study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Walker, Richard W ^a,b   Jusabani, Ahmed ^c   Aris, Eric ^d   Gray, William K ^a   Unwin, Nigel ^e   Swai, Mark ^c   Alberti, George ^f   Mugusi, Ferdinand ^d  

^a NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d Muhimbili Hospital   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; COMPLICATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STROKE; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84888109972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70068-8     Document Type: Article

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