Population
1660 first-ever cases of stroke and acute myocardial infarction recorded prospectively in Dijon, France from…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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Similar fatality rates signal equivalent acute care priorities for stroke and AMI; leaves open whether incidence differences warrant age-sex-specific prevention trials.
Stroke has a higher crude incidence than acute myocardial infarction, but both share similar 30-day case fatality rates, with age and sex significantly influencing relative incidence.
Gentil et al. (2009) studied this question.
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