Thesis
Investigation of the population prevalence, risk factors, and stroke risk of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
- Abstract:
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Carotid artery disease causes 15-20% of all ischaemic strokes and is the main large artery cause of stroke, making it an important target for stroke prevention. Yet little is known about the contemporary prevalence and risk factors for this disease. While medical therapy and carotid revascularisation havw been used for over half a century in patients with carotid stenosis, the absolute benefits of asymptomatic carotid intervention have become less clear in the current era of effective...
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+ Halliday, A
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Bulbulia, R
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Lewington, S
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Pan, H
- Role:
- Supervisor
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
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2019-10-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Morris, D
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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