TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk factors for new atherothrombotic brain infarction in 664 older men and 1,488 older women
AU - Aronow, Wilbert S.
AU - Ahn, Chul
AU - Gutstein, Hal
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of Cardiology, Deportment of Medicine, Cedors-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Unlversi of Colifornla at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, LOS Angeles, Ca “;rl forma. This work was supported in part by a grant from the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr Merz’s address is: Preventive and Rehabllitotive Cardiac Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 444 S.
PY - 1996/6/15
Y1 - 1996/6/15
N2 - Older men had a significantly higher incidence of new atherothrombotic brain infarction than did older women. Risk factors for new atherothrombotic brain infarction were prior atherothrombotic brain infarction, systemic hypertension, and diabetes mellitus in older men and women, and cigarette smoking, serum total cholesterol, and serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (inverse association) in older women.
AB - Older men had a significantly higher incidence of new atherothrombotic brain infarction than did older women. Risk factors for new atherothrombotic brain infarction were prior atherothrombotic brain infarction, systemic hypertension, and diabetes mellitus in older men and women, and cigarette smoking, serum total cholesterol, and serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (inverse association) in older women.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00214-7
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00214-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 8677888
AN - SCOPUS:0030585710
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 77
SP - 1381
EP - 1383
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 15
ER -