TY - JOUR
TI - Incidence and risk factors of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in
Europe - EUROSTROKE: A collaborative study among research centres in
Europe: Rationale and design
AU - Grobbee, DE
AU - Koudstaal, PJ
AU - Bots, ML
AU - Amaducci, LA
AU - Elwood,
AU - PC
AU - Ferro, J
AU - deConcalves, AF
AU - Kruger, O
AU - Inzitari, D and
AU - Nikitin, Y
AU - Salonen, JT
AU - Sivenius, J
AU - Scheuermann, W and
AU - Thelle, DS
AU - Trichopoulou, A
AU - Tuomilehto, JT
JO - Neuroepidemiology
PY - 1996
VL - 15
TODO - 6
SP - 291-300
PB - Karger
SN - 0251-5350, 1423-0208
TODO - 10.1159/000109919
TODO - incidence; ischaemic stroke; EUROSTROKE; risk factors; mortality;
haemorrhagic stroke
TODO - EUROSTROKE is a collaborative study among ten European research centres
to investigate (1) the variation in incidence of fatal and non-fatal
ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke among populations in different
European countries; (2) whether the observed differences in stroke
incidence across countries can be explained by differences in prevalence
of established cardiovascular risk factors; (3) the relative importance
of selected dietary factors (potassium intake, smoking, alcohol
consumption), haemostatic disturbances (fibrinogen) and co-morbidity
(rheumatic heart disease, atrial fibrillation) compared to established
risk factors as determinants of the occurrence of ischaemic and
haemorrhagic stroke. The EUROSTROKE database is drawn from ten European
population-based prospective follow-up studies (cohorts) and is designed
as a case-control study nested within these ten ongoing studies.
ER -