Quantifying the risk of heart disease following acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of over 50 000 participants

Gunnoo, Trishna; Hasan, Nazeeha; Saleem Khan, Muhammad; Slark, Julia; Bentley, Paul; Sharma, Pankaj

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009535

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Quantifying the risk of heart disease following acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of over 50 000 participants

Published in BMJ Open • Jan 1, 2016

Authors:

Trishna Gunnoo

Nazeeha Hasan

Muhammad Saleem Khan

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Following an acute stroke, there is a high risk of recurrence. However, the leading cause of mortality following a stroke is due to coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI) but that risk has not been robustly quantified. We sought to reliably quantify the risk of ischa...

Subject

Medicine

Internal medicine

Stroke (engine)

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