Articles of Interest

 Where possible, links are to the specific issue of the journal in which the article(s) appears.
2004: Feb
2003: Nov Oct Sept Aug July June May April March Feb
  Prior to Feb 2003

August 2003

  • JAMA, Volume 290, No. 8, August 27, 2003
    • A Risk Score for Predicting Stroke or Death in Individuals With New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the Community: The Framingham Heart Study  (Thomas J. Wang; Joseph M. Massaro; Daniel Levy; Ramachandran S. Vasan; Philip A. Wolf; Ralph B. D'Agostino; Martin G. Larson; William B. Kannel; Emelia J. Benjamin)
    • Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
    • Public Health and Aging: Hospitalizations for Stroke among Adults aged > 65 years - United States, 2000
    • Chocolate and Blood Pressure in Elderly Individuals with isolated systolic Hypertension
        
  • NEJM, Volume 349, Issue 7,  August 14, 2003
    • Comparison of Low-Intensity Warfarin Therapy with Conventional-Intensity Warfarin Therapy for Long-Term Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism
    • Secondary Prophylaxis with Warfarin for Venous Thromboembolism
    • Care of Patients receiving Long-Term Anticoagulant Therapy
  • CMAJ: Volume 169, Issue 3, August 5, 2003
    • Effects of thrombolysis for acute stroke patients with pre-existing disability (R. Blaine Taylor Foell, Brian Silver, Jose G. Merino, Edward H. Wong, Bart M. Demaerschalk, Fali Poncha, Arturo Tamayo, Vladimir Hachinski)
        
  • BMJ: Volume 327, Issue 7409, August 2, 2003
    • Proposed US stroke centres under fire for planned use of alteplase
       
  • Stroke: Volume 34, Number 8, August 2003
    • Risk, types and severity of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis (Raymond Cheung, Michael Eliasziw, Heather Meldrum, Allan Fox and Henry Barnett)
    • Development and Progression of Leukoaraiosis in patients with brain ischemia and carotid artery disease (Jonathan Streifler, Michael Eliasziw, Oscar Benavente, Sonia Alamowitch, Allan Fox, Vladimir Hachinski and Henry Barnett plus Editorial Comment by J. V. Bowler
    • Selection of Acute Ischemic stroke patients for intra-arterial thrombolysis with Pro-Urokinase by using ASPECTS (Michael Hill, Howard Rowley, Felix Adler, Michael Eliasziw, Anthony Furlan, Randall Higashida, Lawrence Wechsler, Heidi Roberts, William Dillon, Nancy Fischbein, Carolyn Firszt, Gregory Schulz, Alastair Buchan)
    • Advertising strategies to increase public knowledge of the warning signs of stroke (Frank Silver, Frank Rubini, Diane Black and Corinne Hodgson) plus Editorial Comment by Larry B. Goldstein
       

 

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