Multi-level community interventions for primary stroke prevention: A conceptual approach by the World Stroke Organization
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Primary stroke prevention and community education.
Michael Vecchione, DO stroke Is the fourth leADIng cAuse of death in the United States. Stroke affects almost 800,000 people in the United States each year with two-thirds of events being a first occurrence. Approximately 135,000 people die from stroke each year. In 2007, four of every 10,000 people in Rhode Island died from stroke-related complications. According to the Heart Disease and Str...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Stroke
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1747-4930,1747-4949
DOI: 10.1177/1747493019873706