Gender differences and woman-specific trends in acute stroke: Results from a hospital-based registry (1986-2009)

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-24

  Arboix, Adrià ^a   Cartanyà, Anna ^a   Lowak, Michael ^a   García Eroles, Luís ^b   Parra, Olga ^a   Oliveres, Montserrat ^a   Massons, Joan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Hospital based stroke registry; Sex differences; Temporal trends; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LACUNAR STROKE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; TREND STUDY; AGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; STROKE, LACUNAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN; STROKE; STROKE, LACUNAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN;

EID: 84908065066     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.09.024     Document Type: Article

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