Stroke in women-from evidence to inequalities

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 521-532

  Cordonnier, Charlotte ^a   Sprigg, Nikola ^b   Sandset, Else Charlotte ^c   Pavlovic, Aleksandra ^d   Sunnerhagen, Katharina S ^e   Caso, Valeria ^f   Christensen, Hanne ^g  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETURN TO WORK; REVIEW; RISK; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STILLBIRTH; SUICIDE; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SOCIAL CLASS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 85028668313     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.95     Document Type: Review

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