Cardiovascular mortality in transient ischemic attacks.
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Cardiovascular mortality in transient ischemic attacks.
Statistical analyses were made of the mortality of persons diagnosed as having definite TIA in an epidemiologic survey of a biracial Southern community. None of the usual risk factors associated with this illness such as heart disease, hypertension or diabetes appears to account for the excess deaths observed in a 10 year period of follow up.
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.11.3.252