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Stroke Risk in Poliomyelitis Survivors: A Nationwide Population-Based Study  Chien-Hua Wu, PhD, Tsan-Hon Liou, MD, PhD, Hung-Hsin Chen, MS, PT, Tien-Yu.

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1 Stroke Risk in Poliomyelitis Survivors: A Nationwide Population-Based Study 
Chien-Hua Wu, PhD, Tsan-Hon Liou, MD, PhD, Hung-Hsin Chen, MS, PT, Tien-Yu Sun, PhD, Kai-Hui Chen, MS, Kwang-Hwa Chang, MD  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  Volume 93, Issue 12, Pages (December 2012) DOI: /j.apmr Copyright © 2012 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Summary of the construction of the Taiwan NHIRD and the processes of recruitment of polio and control patients in the study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  , DOI: ( /j.apmr ) Copyright © 2012 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Comparison of the prevalence of ischemic stroke among polio and control patients with and without hypertension. The prevalence of stroke for polio with hypertension was 4-fold that of controls with hypertension (χ2=13.40, P<.001), 10-fold that of polio without hypertension (χ2=22.48, P<.001), and 18-fold that of controls without hypertension. *P<.05 (Fisher exact test), ***P<.001 (Pearson χ2 test). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  , DOI: ( /j.apmr ) Copyright © 2012 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions


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