PLoS ONE
| Autor: | Matta, José Alberto Martins da, Aras Júnior, Roque, Macedo, Cristiano Ricardo Bastos de, Cruz, Cristiano Gonçalves da, Martins Netto, Eduardo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da UFBA Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) instacron:UFBA |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0035116 |
| Popis: | p. 1-7 Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2014-08-12T16:36:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronaldo L. Oliveira.pdf: 700877 bytes, checksum: b4bfdf34c0cb2047c8f1ffc8d0aadacb (MD5) Approved for entry into archive by Delba Rosa (delba@ufba.br) on 2014-08-13T16:11:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronaldo L. Oliveira.pdf: 700877 bytes, checksum: b4bfdf34c0cb2047c8f1ffc8d0aadacb (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-13T16:11:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronaldo L. Oliveira.pdf: 700877 bytes, checksum: b4bfdf34c0cb2047c8f1ffc8d0aadacb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04 Background Aging and migration have brought changes to the epidemiology and stroke has been shown to be independently associated with Chagas disease. We studied stroke correlates in cardiomyopathy patients with focus on the chagasic etiology. Methodology/Principal Findings We performed a cross-sectional review of medical records of 790 patients with a cardiomyopathy. Patients with chagasic (329) and non-chagasic (461) cardiomyopathies were compared. There were 108 stroke cases, significantly more frequent in the Chagas group (17.3% versus 11.1%; p |
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