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Adiposity and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: Prospective study in women and meta-analysis.
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Objective:To compare associations of body mass index (BMI) with ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke risk, and to review the worldwide evidence.
Methods:We recruited 1.3 million previously stroke-free UK women between 1996 and 2001 (mean age 57 years [SD 5]) and followed them by record linkage for hospital admissions and deaths. We used Cox regression to estimate adjusted relative risks for ischemic and hemorrhagic (intracerebral or subarachn...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Pmid:
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27605176
- Source identifiers:
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622832
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- English
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pubs:622832
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uuid:3e98b481-8553-4b37-85d1-554a72b74f03
- Local pid:
- pubs:622832
- Deposit date:
- 2016-11-28
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- American Academy of Neurology
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Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Neurology.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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