Anaemia on admission is associated with more severe intracerebral haemorrhage and worse outcomes

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 382-387

  Bussière, Miguel ^a   Gupta, Meera ^a   Sharma, Mukul ^a   Dowlatshahi, Dar ^a   Fang, Jiming ^b   Dhar, Rajat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Haemoglobin; Intracerebral haemorrhage; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; WARFARIN; HEMOGLOBIN L;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANADIAN NEUROLOGICAL SCALE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CANADA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924768989     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2012.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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