Risk factors for acute stroke among South Asians compared to other racial/ethnic groups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Gezmu, Tefera ^a   Schneider, Dona ^a   Demissie, Kitaw ^b   Lin, Yong ^b   Gizzi, Martin S ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH ASIAN; AGE; ANALYSIS; ASIAN AMERICAN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE;

EID: 84907560439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108901     Document Type: Article

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