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Illicit drug‐associated ischemic stroke in the Baltimore‐Washington Young Stroke Study

DOI

113

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0

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1998

Year

M. A. Sloan, Steven J. Kittner, B. R. Feeser, James F. Gardner, Anne Epstein, Marcella A. Wozniak, Robert J. Wityk, Barney J. Stern, T R Price, Richard F. Macko,
Neurology

Abstract

Recent illicit drug use occurs in 12.1% of young adult stroke patients. Drug-associated young adult stroke seems to relate to vascular mechanisms other than those related to hypertension or diabetes. Case-control studies are needed.