Declining incidence of stroke and dementia: Coincidence or prevention opportunity?

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1529-1531

  Sposato, Luciano A ^a   Kapral, Moira K ^b,c,d   Fang, Jiming ^d   Gill, Sudeep S ^e,f   Hackam, Daniel G ^a   Cipriano, Lauren E ^g   Hachinski, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f St Mary's of the Lake Hospital   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY CARE; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DATA BASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ICD-10; ICD-9; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; TREND STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE;

DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 84945916819     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.2816     Document Type: Letter

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