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Importance of sex and age factor in assessing family history of stroke.
Journal of epidemiology - 1 Sept 2000
Saito T, Nanri S, Saito I, Furukawa T
Abstract excerpt
Incidence of stroke differs between men and women and it increases nearly exponentially with age. Therefore, assessment of family history of stroke disregarding sex and age of family members results in bias or misclassification. In this study the effects of sex and age on the positivity of the past history were analyzed numerically. Sex- and age-specific proportion of a positive history of stroke among 24,007...
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