Living alone predicts mortality in patients with ischemic stroke before 70 years of age: A long-term prospective follow-up study

BMC Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Redfors, Petra ^a   Isaksén, Daniella ^b   Lappas, Georgios ^a   Blomstrand, Christian ^a   Rosengren, Annika ^a   Jood, Katarina ^a   Jern, Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Follow up studies; Mortality; Prognosis; Socioeconomic factors; Stroke subtypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHABITING PERSON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDE (PEOPLE); AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FAMILY SIZE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84978208766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-016-0599-y     Document Type: Article

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