Timing and number of minor infections as risk factors for childhood arterial ischemic stroke

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 890-897

  Hills, Nancy K ^a   Sidney, Stephen ^b   Fullerton, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922241551     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000752     Document Type: Article

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