Epidemiology of non-fatal cerebrovascular stroke and transient ischemic attacks in Al Quseir, Egypt

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 1547-1551

  El Tallawy, Hamdy N ^a   Farghaly, Wafaa M A ^a   Shehata, Ghaydaa A ^a   Abdel Hakeem, Nabil M ^b   Rageh, Tarek A ^a   Badry, Reda ^a   Kandil, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Epidemiology; Stroke; TIAs

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; LIPID; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EGYPT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; NON FATAL CEREBROVASCULAR STROKE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL WORKER; THYROID FUNCTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STROKE; TIAS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STROKE;

EID: 84888160520     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S48785     Document Type: Article

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