Impact of gender-age interaction on the outcome of ischemic stroke in an Italian cohort of patients treated according to a standardized clinical pathway.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study confirms the excess risk of disability after stroke in women, although it is mostly explained by the occurrence of the most severe clinical syndromes. As for mortality, female gender seems to play a protective role, at least in the short-term and in younger patients.
PMID: 23998857 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - August 30, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Denti L, Artoni A, Scoditti U, Caminiti C, Giambanco F, Casella M, Ceda GP Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research