Association of total pre-existing comorbidities with stroke risk: a large-scale community-based cohort study from China

• Main Authors: Ya Zhang (Author), Cuicui Wang (Author), Dong Liu (Author), Zhengyuan Zhou (Author), Shujun Gu (Author), Hui Zuo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Comorbidities, any other coexisting diseases in patients with a particular index disease, are known to increase the mortality of a stroke. However, the association of pre-existing comorbidities with stroke risk has not been fully studied. Methods This study included 16,246 adults...