Clinical, lifestyle, socioeconomic determinants and rate of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in stroke free Pakistanis

BMC Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kamal, Ayeesha K ^a   Majeed, Farzin ^a   Pasha, Omrana ^a   Rehman, Hasan ^a   Islam, Muhammad ^a   Azam, Iqbal ^a   Ilyas, Muhammad S ^b   Hussain, Munawar ^b   Masood, Kamran ^b   Ahmed, Bilal ^c   Nazir, Sumaira ^a   Sajjad, Zafar ^a   Kasner, Scott E ^d  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Developing countries; Epidemiology; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Prevention; Sociodemographic risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAKISTANI; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE FOR VERIFYING STROKE FREE STATUS; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84910096696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-014-0155-6     Document Type: Article

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