Secondary prevention treatment after acute stroke in older South Asian, Chinese and other Canadians: a retrospective data analysis.

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Published in CMAJ Open on September 11, 2017

Authors

Nadia A Khan1, Finlay A McAlister1, Louise Pilote1, Anita Palepu1, Hude Quan1, Michael D Hill1, Jiming Fang1, Moira K Kapral1

Author Affiliations

1: Affiliations: Division of General Internal Medicine (Khan, Palepu), University of British Columbia; Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcomes Sciences (Khan, Palepu), Vancouver, BC; Division of General Internal Medicine (McAlister) and Patient Health Outcomes Research and Clinical Effectiveness Unit (McAlister), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta; Divisions of Clinical Epidemiology (Pilote) and General Internal Medicine (Pilote), Department of Medicine, McGill University; The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (Pilote), Montréal, Que.; Departments of Community Health Sciences (Quan, Hill) and Clinical Neurosciences (Hill), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Fang, Kapral); Division of General Internal Medicine (Kapral), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

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