Obesity Increases Stroke Risk in Young Adults: Opportunity for Prevention

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1435-1436

  Kernan, Walter N ^a   Dearborn, Jennifer L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorials; obesity; prevention control; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOM DIGIT DIALING; SMOKING; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT; FEMALE; MALE; STROKE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; STROKE;

EID: 84942940802     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009347     Document Type: Editorial

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