Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China.

Stroke is the second most common cause of mortality in China. Although most subtypes of ischemic stroke share similar risk factors, they have different etiologies. Our study aimed to evaluate the different risk factor profiles between the stroke subtypes, lacunar infarcts (LI) and large-artery ather...

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Main Authors: Pu Lv, Haiqiang Jin, Yuanyuan Liu, Wei Cui, Qing Peng, Ran Liu, Wei Sun, Chenghe Fan, Yuming Teng, Weiping Sun, Yining Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4774914?pdf=render