Etiology and pathophysiology of stroke as a complex trait
Open Access
- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Hypertension
- Vol. 13 (10) , 1139-1148
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0895-7061(00)01249-8
Abstract
Stroke (brain attack) is currently the third leading cause of death in Western societies. Recent advances in molecular genetics have finally demonstrThis publication has 70 references indexed in Scilit:
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