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Stroke Among Young West Africans

2018151 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Fred Stephen Sarfo · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Bruce Ovbiagele · Medical University of South Carolina

Mulugeta Gebregziabher · Medical University of South Carolina

Kolawole Wahab · University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital

Rufus Akinyemi · University of Ibadan

Albert Akpalu · University of Ghana

Abstract

The high and rising burden of stroke among young Africans should be curtailed via aggressive, population-wide vascular risk factor control.

Topics & Keywords

Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Stroke

Volume 49, Issue 5, pp. 1116-1122

DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.118.020783

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 10.55

· University of Ibadan

Reginald Obiako · Ahmadu Bello University

Lukman Owolabi · Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

Carolyn Jenkins · Medical University of South Carolina

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