Stroke in rural coastal Ecuador: A community-based survey

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 365-366

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,b   Santamaría, Milton ^c   Zambrano, Mauricio ^b   Peñaherrera, Ernesto ^d   Pow Chon Long, Freddy ^d   Del Brutto, Victor J ^b   Ochoa, Elio ^e   Valdiviezo, Elsy ^b   Santibáñez, Rocío ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ESPÍRITU SANTO   (Ecuador)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^c Ministry of Public Health   (Ecuador)

^d HOSPITAL LUIS VERNAZA   (Ecuador)

^e Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Epidemiology; Hispanic; Risk factors; Stroke; Stroke prevalence

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECUADOR; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE ARTERIOLOPATHY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; STROKE PATIENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISPANIC; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; STROKE PREVALENCE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STROKE;

EID: 84896313671     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12102     Document Type: Article

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