Advances in Primary Stroke Prevention
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Advances in primary stroke prevention.
Because 75% of strokes are first-ever strokes,1 it is likely that effective prevention in persons with established risk factors who have not had a stroke (ie, primary prevention) can have as great or a greater impact on reducing the burden of the disease as effective prevention of recurrent stroke. The cost associated with inadequate primary prevention is at least as great as that resulting fro...
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2009 will be remembered as the year that genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed both their promise and limitations as an approach to understand the genetic architecture of stroke. The promise of GWAS lies in their extraordinary power to detect novel biologic loci that, if replicated, can serve as markers for novel genes, proteins, and ultimately mechanisms of disease. In this regard, s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.0000200456.43415.11