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A 12-year prospective study of stroke risk in older Medicare beneficiaries
BMC Geriatrics, 07/02/09

Wolinsky FD et al. - The effect of this health shock marker (a time-dependent recent hospitalization indicator) was large and did not mediate the effects of the traditional risk factors. This suggests an especially vulnerable post-hospital transition period from adverse effects associated with both their underlying health shock (the reasons for the recent hospital admission) and the consequences of their treatments.

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Antiphospholipid antibodies and risk of myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke in young women in the RATIO study
The Lancet Neurology, 10/16/09 Relevance Score: 71%

Oral anticoagulant therapy safely prevented stroke in older patients with atrial fibrillation
Evidence-Based Medicine, 10/26/09 Relevance Score: 70%

Advancing the hypothesis that geographic variations in risk factors contribute relatively little to observed geographic variations in heart disease and stroke mortality
Preventive Medicine, 10/16/09 Relevance Score: 70%

Refining clinical risk stratification for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation using a novel risk factor based approach: The Euro Heart Survey on Atrial Fibrillation
Chest, 10/07/09 Relevance Score: 70%

Lipid Profile Components and Risk of Ischemic Stroke
Archives of Neurology, 11/12/09 Relevance Score: 69%