Lifelong exercise and stroke.
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Lifelong exercise and stroke.
OBJECTIVES To examine the potential of lifelong patterns of increased physical activity to prevent stroke. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING 11 general practices in west Birmingham. SUBJECTS 125 men and women who had just had their first stroke and were aged 35-74 and 198 controls frequency matched for age and sex recruited over 24 months during 1988-90. Exclusion criteria were a previou...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.307.6898.231