Excess Body Weight and Incidence of Stroke | Zendy

Pasquale Strazzullo | Zendy; Lanfranco D’Elia | Zendy; Giulia Cairella | Zendy; F. Garbagnati | Zendy; Francesco P. Cappuccio | Zendy; Luca Scalfi | Zendy

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Excess Body Weight and Incidence of Stroke

Author(s) -

Pasquale Strazzullo,

Lanfranco D’Elia,

Giulia Cairella,

F. Garbagnati,

Francesco P. Cappuccio,

Luca Scalfi

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.109.576967

Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , body mass index , stroke (engine) , obesity , incidence (geometry) , population , cohort study , prospective cohort study , relative risk , demography , subgroup analysis , meta analysis , confidence interval , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , sociology , engineering

A systematic review of the prospective studies addressing the relationship of overweight and obesity to major stroke subtypes is lacking. We evaluated the occurrence of a graded association between overweight, obesity, and incidence of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke by a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

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