Stroke risk profile: adjustment for antihypertensive medication. The Framingham Study.
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Stroke risk profile: adjustment for antihypertensive medication. The Framingham Study.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to modify existing sex-specific health risk appraisal functions (profile functions) for the prediction of first stroke that better assess the effects of the use of antihypertensive medication. METHODS Health risk appraisal functions were previously developed from the Framingham Study cohort. These functions were Cox proportional hazards regression models relat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.25.1.40