Incidence of First Stroke in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women of Childbearing Age: A Population-Based Cohort Study From England

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Ban, Lu ^a   Sprigg, Nikola ^a   Sultan, Alyshah Abdul ^a,b   Nelson Piercy, Catherine ^c   Bath, Philip M ^a   Ludvigsson, Jonas F ^d,e   Stephansson, Olof ^d   Tata, Laila J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Pregnancy and postpartum; Stroke; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDBEARING AGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RISK ASSESSMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC STROKE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; OPEN STUDY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POISSON REGRESSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PUERPERIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECLAMPSIA; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; ECLAMPSIA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029106135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004601     Document Type: Article

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