Stroke in rural Ecuador: A three-phase, door-to-door survey

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1974-1975

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,f   Idrovo, L ^b   Mosquera, A ^c   Navas, C ^d   Santibanez R ^a,d   Cuesta, F ^e   Diaz Calderon E ^d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^b Health Center   (Ecuador)

^c Military Hospital   (Ecuador)

^d Hospital Regional Teodoro Maldonado Carbo   (Ecuador)

^e HOSPITAL LUIS VERNAZA   (Ecuador)

^f Air Center 3542   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECUADOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

EID: 8844262625     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000145293.04832.78     Document Type: Article

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