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.

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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...

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