30-Year trends in stroke rates and outcome in Auckland, New Zealand (1981-2012): A multi-ethnic population-based series of studies

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Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Feigin, Valery L ^a   Krishnamurthi, Rita V ^a   Barker Collo, Suzanne ^b   McPherson, Kathryn M ^c   Barber, P Alan ^b   Parag, Varsha ^b   Arroll, Bruce ^b   Bennett, Derrick A ^d   Tobias, Martin ^e   Jones, Amy ^a   Witt, Emma ^a   Brown, Paul ^a,f   Abbott, Max ^a   Bhattacharjee, Rohit ^a   Rush, Elaine ^a   Suh, Flora Minsun ^g   Theadom, Alice ^a   Rathnasabapathy, Yogini ^h   Ao, Braden Te ^a   Parmar, Priya G ^a   Anderson, Craig ⁱ   Bonita, Ruth ^b   more..

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Health New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI (PEOPLE); MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALANDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE PATIENT; TREND STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTER; STROKE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW ZEALAND; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STROKE;

EID: 84942904806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134609     Document Type: Article

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