Stroke prevention in women: Synopsis of the 2014 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guideline

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 853-857

  Bushnell, Cheryl ^a   McCullough, Louise ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PLACEBO; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

AGING; CARDIOLOGIST; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECLAMPSIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE CENTER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GYNECOLOGIST; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIGRAINE; OBESITY; OBSTETRICIAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902667427     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-0762     Document Type: Review

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