Lower Prevalence of Carotid Plaque Hemorrhage in Women, and Its Mediator Effect on Sex Differences in Recurrent Cerebrovascular Events

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Women are at lower risk of stroke, and appear to benefit less from carotid endarterectomy (CEA) than men. We hypothesised that this is due to more benign carotid disease in women mediating a lower risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events. To test this, we investigated sex dif...

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Autores principales: Kandiyil, Neghal, Altaf, Nishath, Hosseini, Akram A., MacSweeney, Shane T., Auer, Dorothee P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047319

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047319

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