Stroke Prevention Strategies in the Developing World

Affiliations

¹ From the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, Gadchiroli, India (Y.V.K.).
² Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India (S.A.).
³ Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India (S.K.).
⁴ Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada (V.H.).

Review

Yogeshwar V Kalkonde et al. Stroke. 2018 Dec.

. 2018 Dec;49(12):3092-3097.

doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.017384.

¹ From the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, Gadchiroli, India (Y.V.K.).
² Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India (S.A.).
³ Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India (S.K.).
⁴ Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada (V.H.).

Erratum in

Correction to: Stroke Prevention Strategies in the Developing World.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Stroke. 2019 Sep;50(9):e279. doi: 10.1161/STR.0000000000000203. Epub 2019 Aug 26. Stroke. 2019. PMID: 31449485 No abstract available.

No abstract available

Keywords: developing countries; preventive health care; primary prevention; risk factors; secondary prevention; stroke.

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